Rafah

Canada, Australia, New Zealand Urge Israel Against ‘Catastrophic’ Assault

February 15, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Australia, Canada, European Union (EU), Genocide, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Palestine, Rafah, Spain, Wars and Militarism

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a joint statement on 15 February expressing serious concern over Israel’s planned assault on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. "We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is planning a ground offensive into Rafah. A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic," the joint statement read. “We urge the Israeli government not to go down this path. There is simply nowhere else for civilians to go,” it added. The statement comes one day after Germany and France showed their concern over the planned attack. “One point three million people are waiting there in a very small space. They don’t really have anywhere else to go right now

ICC Chief Prosecutor Says Probe Underway Into Israeli War Crimes

February 13, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Australia, Gaza, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Japan, Rafah, War crimes

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, on 12 February warned Israeli officials about the consequences of launching a ground invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and revealed his office launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Tel Aviv. “I am deeply concerned by the reported bombardment and potential ground incursion by Israeli forces in Rafah. My office has an ongoing and active investigation into the situation in the State of Palestine. This is being taken forward as a matter of the utmost urgency, with a view to bringing to justice those responsible for Rome Statute crimes,” Khan said via social media.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 129: Israel Bombards Rafah

February 12, 2024 Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. Educate! Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, Wars and Militarism

The Israeli military has ramped up its attacks on Rafah in southern Gaza as it prepares for a possible ground offensive on the Palestinian city, which has become one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Rafah, which borders Egypt, is the last key city that Israeli troops have yet to enter. The area was once designated a “safe zone,” although it has been subjected to constant air attacks since Israel’s offensive began. Overnight on Sunday, the military intensified their air raid on the city, killing at least 67 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, including babies and children.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 127: Growing Alarm Over Israeli Plans

February 11, 2024 Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. Educate! Egypt, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Despite warnings and criticisms from the Biden administration, Israel is announcing its intention to push ahead with its plans to invade Rafah, the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip where an estimated 1 million Palestinians, half of Gaza’s population, are sheltering. Israeli news daily Haaretz reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army and defense establishment on Friday to “present plans to defeat the Hamas battalions” that are allegedly operating in Rafah. Quoting a statement from the Prime Minister, Haaretz reported Netanyahu as saying: “It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas while leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah.”

Egypt Threatens Suspension Of Peace Treaty If Israel Invades Rafah

February 11, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Egypt, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, Wars and Militarism

Egyptian officials warned their Israeli counterparts that any Israeli ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah "would effectively suspend" the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 11 February. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, located on Egypt's border and where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents, was necessary to destroy the four brigades of Hamas' armed wing allegedly present there. "There is limited space and great risk in putting Rafah under further military escalation due to the growing number of Palestinians there," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday during a press briefing, warning that an escalation would have "dire consequences."

Fears Of Mass Expulsion As Netanyahu Orders Plan For Rafah Assault

February 10, 2024 Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Massacre, Palestine, Rafah

United Nations officials and international humanitarian agencies are urgently pleading with Israel to forgo an invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, which Palestinian human rights groups have repeatedly warned would result in a mass expulsion to Egypt. The majority of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians are currently trapped in Rafah and have “nowhere left to flee,” according to Save the Children. Many of the Palestinians now sheltering in Rafah after being displaced from other areas of Gaza are “penned up against the border fence with Egypt and living in makeshift tents,” as Reuters states.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 119: Israel Pushes Forward Into Rafah

February 2, 2024 Anna Lekas Miller, Mondoweiss. Educate! Displacement, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, Wars and Militarism

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has officially declared that “victory will not be complete until the military expands into Rafah,” the southern-most enclave of the Gaza Strip that is currently sheltering around 1.9 million Palestinians. “The Khan Younis Brigade of the Hamas organization is disbanded, we will complete the mission there and continue to Rafah,” he wrote in a post on the social media platform X. “The great pressure that the forces exert on Hamas targets brings us closer to the return of abductees more than anything else. We will continue to the end, there is no other way.”

Witnessing The Gaza Genocide And Dealing With Despair

December 9, 2023 Gerry Condon, Peace and Planet News. Educate! Despair, Egypt, Gaza, Genocide, Palestine, Rafah

Israel's genocidal assault on the civilian population of Gaza is not being carried out by carpet bombing alone. Electricity and water have been cut off. Desperately needed food, water and medical supplies are not being allowed in. Israel has deployed starvation as a weapon of war. Hundreds of big-rig trucks are lined up at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, waiting to deliver their cargoes of food, water, medicine, and basic necessities. This is the southern Gaza border, which is supposed to be controlled by Egypt. Israel has bombed the Gaza side of the border, however, and Egypt, a military dictatorship that relies heavily on U.S. military aid, has been slow to open its border.

International Delegation Pushes For Opening The Rafah Border To Gaza

November 27, 2023 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Egypt, Gaza, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, International Solidarity, Israel, Palestine, Rafah

Recently, an international delegation traveled to Cairo, Egypt to visit the Rafah border crossing and pressure the United States to allow aid to be brought in to Gaza. Hundreds of trucks carrying aid are lined up at the border waiting for permission to enter. Clearing the FOG spoke with Sara Flounders, one of the members of the delegation, about the current situation in Gaza, the role of the United States in the genocide of Palestinians, how the current conflict is impacting the United States' drive to protect its hegemony and the blow back in Western Asia. Flounders also discusses the incredible solidarity across the world with Palestine and the numerous creative actions in support of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Struggling To Break The Gaza Blockade

November 22, 2023 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Egypt, Gaza, International Solidarity, Israel, Palestine, Rafah

Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let aid into Gaza. She was joined by members of a long list of organizations including the National Lawyers Guild, Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Network, Black Alliance for Peace, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, US Peace Council, Veterans for Peace, Samidoun, Palestine Rights, Free Julian Assange Committee, Philly Palestine Coalition, and Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees. They were accompanied by representatives of media outlets including Black Agenda Report, RT, The Grayzone, Real News Network, and Brazil's Diário do Central do Mondo.

Egyptian Journalists Syndicate Launches ‘Global Conscience Convoy’

November 15, 2023 Mahmoud Hashem, People's Dispatch. Resist! Egypt, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Journalists, Palestine, Rafah

The brutal genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continues unabated after 5 weeks. The majority of the enclave’s hospitals have been rendered inoperational through targeted airstrikes on medical infrastructure or because fuel and power supplies have run out, putting at risk the tens of thousands who have been injured in the last month, the hundreds of thousands seeking shelter in medical installations, and healthcare workers. It is in this context, that the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) has called on “the free people of the world” to join its “Global Conscience Convoy” aiming to apply pressure to open the Rafah Crossing – the Gaza Strip’s lifeline – to allow all forms of humanitarian aid, such as (food, water, medication, and fuel) to enter sustainably, and for an unconditional exit for the critically wounded.

International Delegation In Cairo Demands Opening Of Rafah Border

November 13, 2023 Susan Abulhawa and Suzanne Adely, Workers.org. Resist! Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Rafah

We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers who arrived in Cairo, Egypt, this week with the goal of reaching the Rafah border crossing with Gaza to exert pressure to open the border for the immediate entry and sustained flow of urgent humanitarian aid — food, water, fuel and medical aid to 2.3 million Palestinians facing starvation and death as genocidal Israeli airstrikes continuously pound defenseless civilians. In response to the Palestinian and Arab calls for civil society to challenge Israel’s deadly occupation by heading immediately towards the Egyptian-Palestinian crossing to bring urgent humanitarian relief to 2.3 million people, we have just submitted a request to the Egyptian authorities for permission to travel to Rafah.

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