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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced yesterday that Israel has displaced about 450,000 Palestinians from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with its attacks.
UNRWA stated in a statement on the X platform that the roads in Rafah seemed empty of people who fled in search of safety, after Israel announced its seizure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. She reported that the number of people displaced from Rafah is estimated at about 450,000 people since the beginning of the Israeli ground attack on the city, adding: “People are facing exhaustion, hunger and constant fear. There is no safe place. The only hope is an immediate ceasefire.” A massive exodus movement continued from Rafah, on foot, in vehicles, on bicycles, or in buggies. They did not know where to go after most of the Gaza Strip’s areas had turned into rubble as a result of the longest war in the history of the conflict.
In the early hours of yesterday morning, air strikes targeted Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, which is crowded with about 1.4 million Palestinians, most of whom took refuge in this city located on the border with Egypt to escape the bombing and fighting in recent months, but some of them are now fleeing from it after Israeli threats to launch an operation. Big in it.
Meanwhile, the United Nations described the attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank on aid trucks heading to the Gaza Strip as “horrific.”
This came in a statement by United Nations Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq yesterday, in response to a question about the settlers’ attack on an aid convoy in the West Bank.
Haq stated that they at the United Nations strongly oppose these actions, indicating that humanitarian aid convoys should not be attacked.
In this regard, he said: “This is horrific behavior,” indicating that according to the United Nations, the settlements are illegal, and that the United Nations opposes them.
Haq explained that the United Nations is deeply concerned about the failure to protect civilians and humanitarian aid operations, and stressed the need to protect civilians and give those wishing to leave safe alternatives and sufficient time.
In turn, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said, “The extremist attacks on aid convoys heading to Gaza are horrific,” adding, “The people of Gaza face the risk of starvation and are in dire need of supplies.”
In a post on the “X” platform, commenting on the targeting of aid convoys, the Belgian Minister of Cooperation said that preventing humanitarian aid from the Gaza Strip is contrary to international law. On Monday evening, Israeli settlers attacked 9 aid trucks on their way to Gaza, looted them, damaged them, and set fire to at least one near the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank.
In this context, the United Nations confirmed yesterday that it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movement of the vehicle that was carrying employees of the United Nations, which was exposed to gunfire in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip the day before yesterday, which led to the death of an Indian employee and the injury of another.
United Nations spokesman Rolando Gomez said during a press conference: “The United Nations informs the Israeli authorities of the movement of all our convoys. This is the case in any theater of operations and this is an approved operational procedure,” noting that the vehicle was on its way to the European Hospital in Rafah when it was hit.
According to Gomez, “This applies to the incident last Monday. We informed them, and the vehicle had a clear United Nations tag,” adding, “This is clear evidence that there is no safe place in Gaza at the present time.”
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