Palestinians killed in Rafah in their dozens as an impending Israeli

The Palestinians Red Crescent Society reports that numerous locations in Rafah were hit by “extremely intense” Israeli airstrikes and shelling overnight on Monday, killing dozens of people, including children, as international concern over Israel’s planned ground offensive in the southern Gaza city grows. According to the PRCS, early on Monday, over 100 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes, which targeted various parts of the city and saw helicopters firing machine guns along the border. Concerns have been raised that the number of fatalities may increase because, according to the PRCS, there are still people under the debris and a significant number of warplanes are over Rafah.

Medical facilities in Rafah “cannot handle the large number of injuries due to the Israeli occupation’s bombardment,” according to the director of Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital. CNN was able to obtain footage from the hospital in Rafah, Al Kuwaiti, which showed a chaotic scene inside. In one scene, medical professionals were seen attempting to revive a lifeless child, while in another, a wounded man was being treated by doctors on the hospital floor. Another video showed a distraught woman clutching the body of a child covered in white cloth. The Rafah municipality said on Monday that the strikes had targeted at least two mosques in addition to about a dozen residences. The Israeli military acknowledged that two Israeli hostages were freed in a “special operation” and that it carried out a “series of strikes” on what it claimed were targets in the Shaboura neighborhood of Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency Shin Bet, and Police jointly released a statement identifying the hostages as Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, claiming that Hamas abducted them from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7.

“The final stronghold of Palestinians “

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, announced on Friday that the IDF would “soon go into Rafah, Hamas’s last bastion,” and he gave the military order to prepare for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah. Following his remarks, Human Rights Watch declared that forcing Palestinians out of Rafah would have “catastrophic consequences,” sparking a flurry of criticism. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the UN was “extremely worried about the fate of civilians in Rafah” and that people “need to be protected.” According to a Hamas leadership source, an attack on Rafah would result in the “destruction” of weeks-long negotiations, as reported by Al-Aqsa TV. In addition, a growing number of nations, including the UK, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar, have expressed concern over Israel’s impending offensive. The foreign ministry of Saudi Arabia issued a warning on Sunday about the “very serious repercussions of storming and targeting” the city. Meanwhile, Qatar, a major mediator in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas, urged the UN Security Council to “prevent” Israel from carrying out what it called “genocide” and issued a warning about a “humanitarian catastrophe in the city.” On February 3, 2024, a satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies depicts Rafah, Gaza.

On February 3, 2024, a satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies depicts Rafah, Gaza. ©2024 satellite image Technologies Maxar US President Joe Biden “reaffirmed” his position that the IDF should not carry out the military operation in Rafah “without a credible and executable plan” to ensure the safety of civilians during a call with Netanyahu on Sunday, according to a White House release. Netanyahu, however, dismissed the criticism, claiming that instructing Israel to stay out of the southern Gazan city was akin to telling it to lose the war.

“The dead are superior to us.”

Fear and anxiety are gripping the more than a million Palestinians residents of the southern city as a result of the anticipated push into Rafah. A Palestinian resident of Rafah named Mohammad Jamal Abu Tour said, “We are praying to God that what happened in Gaza City does not happen in Rafah because if the same happens in Rafah we will have no place to go.” “The supplies that were provided for us here in Rafah are not going to be found if we travel to Gaza City, Khan Younis, or El Nuseirat,” he continued. “We keep hearing that people in Gaza City are eating grass and drinking from the sea, and that they are unable to find clean water. God help them.” KARAMEH, GAZA – FEBRUARY 02: After Israeli Forces left the areas in Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 02, 2024, this is what remains of the destroyed buildings and roads. After Karameh withdrew, weeks of nonstop Israeli bombardment caused extensive devastation. The region was reduced to a wasteland of debris and ash as a result of the airstrikes and bulldozer operations. The area had been devastated, as seen by the aftermath of the Israeli withdrawal from the city.

Israel violence against Palestinians

Following Israeli operations in northern Gaza, residents of Gaza City’s Tal El Hawa neighbourhood described scenes of “total destruction,” with some claiming they were forced to drink from toilets due to a shortage of water. “A siege was imposed upon us. We attempted to return northward, but we were surrounded here, Abdul Kareem Al-Qaseer said to a CNN reporter. There were martyrs every day. There was shelling every day. There was hunger every day. Even the water from the toilets was forced upon us. It was our duty to drink from and force our kids to drink from it. He continued, “There was no drink, no food. According to Olfat Hamdan, she saw dead bodies lying around Gaza City, and she said that “nobody was able to drag them or move them.” Rafah is the southernmost city of Gaza, and Palestinians have been living there in makeshift tents as an IDF ground campaign approaches. “What have I observed? In a CNN-commissioned video, she said, “Total destruction – look at of the scale of the destruction,” pointing to the collapsed buildings and debris around her. CNN reported that the destruction in the southern city of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military had in the early days of the war urged a large number of civilians to evacuate, was unimaginable.

Numerous buildings have been completely demolished and the debris bulldozed away since the IDF concentrated its campaign on Khan Younis. The ones that remain seem irreparably damaged. Some have lone walls with holes where windows once were, resembling the ruins of mediaeval castles. The large-scale human cost of a war that has already caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis for the people of Gaza, including starvation, an impending famine, a medical disaster, and the deaths of over 28,100 Palestinians, is at the core of growing fears surrounding an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, according to information released by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Live updates the latest on israel’s war in gaza

In response to a truce proposal with Israel, which the mediator Qatar described as “largely positive,”Hamas released a statement. Israel has declared that it is “thoroughly” reviewing the remarks made by Hamas regarding the potential deal. The Israeli military announced that 31 of the prisoners detained in
Gaza had been declared dead, causing further sorrow in Israel and increasing pressure on the Netanyahu administration to give the return of the remaining prisoners top priority. Following criticism from right-wing politicians, the Israeli military issued an apology for a military exercise that simulated a Palestinian being kidnapped by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The drill was denounced by Prime Minister Netanyahu as “detached from reality,
” but since October 7, Jewish settlers’ attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank have increased to unprecedented levels. A projected Israeli attack on Rafah, close to the Egyptian border where an estimated 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are currently gathered in the hopes of finding safety, alarmed the UN. The UN declared that to prevent an Israeli attack that might result in “large scale” casualties among Palestinian displaced people who have nowhere to go,
“everything possible” must be done.

Senator Bernie Sanders criticises the impact of pro-Israel lobbying organisation’s on American politics

American israel political action committee “Lobbying groups like Christians United for Israel [CUFI] and AIPAC [the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee]” have come under fire from Sanders for using their substantial financial resources to promote “unquestioning support for Israel’s right-wing government. ” Speaking on Tuesday to a US think tank,
Sanders stated that AIPAC is anticipated to invest roughly $100 million in an effort to unseat progressive politicians who have advocated for Palestinian rights in the next election cycle. Sanders connected the influence of lobbying organisation’s that advance the interests of governments like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates to the more general topic of the role that money plays in US politicians , saying, “The message was clear: if you criticise Netanyahu, you will be targeted.”

UK MP requests information from FM about “flimsy” Israeli report on
UNRWA

UN report on israel and Palestine Scottish National Party MP Tommy Shepherd has written to UK Foreign Minister David Cameron, inquiring as to whether the UK government’s suspension of UNRWA aid was solely motivated by an Israeli dossier. Numerous media sources have reported that the dossier, which served as the foundation for Israeli accusations that a few UNRWA staff members participated in the October 7 attack, is devoid of supporting documentation.

“In light of the revelations surrounding the 6-page document, I urge you to
review the decision made to suspend funding and resume support for UNRWA while it conducts its internal investigation,” the letter ends. significant famine risk
Risk of famine The WFP’s regional director, Matt Hollingsworth, stated,
“We know there is a very serious risk of famine in Gaza if we don’t provide very significant volumes of food assistance regularly.” According to the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), the percentage of relief missions refused entry into northern Gaza has increased significantly: from 14% in October to December, 56% of deliveries were refused entry in January. Additionally, it stated that the Israeli military “imposed reductions on the volume
of assistance, such as the quantity of food, ” and “at times required justifications” for fuel quantities headed for medical facilities. The Israeli army was questioned by the BBC. They led us to Cog-at, who instructed us to ask the army the questions we had. Four-time mother of four Duha al-Khalidi of Beit
told the BBC two weeks ago that after her kids went three days without food, she walked six miles (9.5 km) to her sister’s home in Gaza City in a desperate attempt to find food.
“I don’t have any money,
and even if I did, there’s nothing in the town’s main market,
” she stated.
“[My sister’s] family is likewise
going through hardship. She gave me the last of the pasta that was in her fridge.”

“The devastation is extensive.”

Over half of the agricultural land in the central region of Deir al-Balah appears to have been damaged,
according to recent UN figures. This includes Bassem Younis Abu Zayed’s farmland and olive press. “It looks like the aftermath of an earthquake,
” he stated. “A large area of nearby buildings and farm animals
have been destroyed. 80–90% of the olives are gone, even if we can get the mill back up and running. It’s a loss for the upcoming few years as well as for this year.
” In the border town of Rafah, located further south, the 300,000 residents of the town are now vying for space with over a million people who were displaced by the fighting elsewhere. The Israeli army frequently releases what it claims is new video of bustling eateries and marketplaces in the southern areas of Gaza. A public health emergency is imminent due to a lack of shelter, sanitation, and medical care, according to residents and aid agencies. Although most of the 114 aid missions that attempted to reach the southern areas of Gaza last month were successful, many people are still going hungry. Blocks to aid can come from conflict, red tape, or debris. A food convoy in Gaza that was about to move north earlier this week was struck by naval gunfire. However, deliveries are made more difficult by Gazans’ increasing desperation, according to Matt Hollingsworth.

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Palestinians killed in Rafah in their dozens as an impending Israeli ground offensive

Palestinians killed in Rafah in their dozens as an impending Israeli