SANA'A May 06. 2024 (Saba) - In light of the threats of the Zionist enemy to force the displaced in the eastern region of Rafah to flee their areas. Human rights and international organizations warned on Monday of the danger of Zionist measures aimed at committing genocide in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
According to official estimates, about one and a half million displaced Palestinians live in Rafah, who sought refuge there after displacement as a result of the destruction and incursions into various areas in the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today that 600,000 children in the southern Gaza city of Rafah "have nowhere safe to go." It warned of "forced displacement" and attacks against them.
The UN agency issued a statement after notifying the enemy Zionist army, which ordered the evacuation of some neighborhoods east of Rafah where displaced Palestinians had taken refuge.
UNICEF called for "the protection of civilians and infrastructure that supports their basic needs, such as hospitals and shelters, from attacks and military use."
As the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens, the statement warned of "catastrophic" consequences of a possible Zionist military assault on 600,000 children in Rafah.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said: "Rafah is now a city for children who have no safe place to take refuge in Gaza," according to the same statement.
On the other hand, the director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Scott Anderson, said that the place to which the Zionist enemy army directed the residents of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip "is not suitable for housing."
Anderson said in an interview with CNN that the western coast of the Gaza Strip is a "sandy area" with many beaches, and it is not a suitable place to set up tents, stay and try to live and meet the basic daily needs of the population.
The UN official renewed his warning that the potential repercussions of any large-scale Zionist attack in Rafah would be "catastrophic" for 1.4 million people, almost half of whom were children.
Anderson stressed that the place to which the enemy army directed residents of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah was "not suitable" for housing.
The Israeli enemy army has warned tens of thousands of Palestinians to forcibly evict some neighborhoods east of Rafah, which are crowded with displaced people.
Palestinian and international warnings of a possible spike in casualties are mounting if enemy forces carry out their threat of a military invasion of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
The Zionist enemy forces continue the war despite a UN Security Council resolution to immediately cease fire and despite appearing before the International Court of Justice on charges of "genocide".
For its part, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly warned of the repercussions of the issuance by the Zionist enemy army of displacement orders for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, the far south of the Gaza Strip, apparently as a prelude to the start of a military operation that represents an announcement of the execution of more than 1.2 million Palestinians in the city and an escalation of the crime of genocide that has been ongoing since the seventh of last October.
The Observatory stated in a statement that the enemy army began warning the civilian population to evacuate the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah, especially the "Al-Shoka" area and the neighborhoods of "Al-Salam", "Al-Geneina" and "Al-Bayouk", through written publications, text messages and recorded phone calls towards the "Al-Mawasi" area, west of the neighboring city of Khan Yunis, without any explanation of how to transport civilians safely to the said area, or how to organize them upon their arrival.
The areas affected by the displacement orders, which may affect more than 200,000 people, include Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital, the central hospital in Rafah, as well as the Rafah and Kerem Shalom/Kerom commercial crossings, through which the entry of aid trucks has been suspended since yesterday afternoon.
The Observatory added: The new displacement orders from the Zionist enemy army were accompanied by a warning that Gaza City and its north "is still a dangerous fighting zone," and preventing Palestinian residents from returning north, and at a time when air strikes intensified in recent hours on residential homes in Rafah, leaving at least 26 martyrs, most of them children and women, and dozens injured, in addition to missing others under the rubble.
The displacement orders for hundreds of thousands of civilian residents do not necessarily mean neutralizing them or protecting them from military attacks, especially since the vast majority of these have already been displaced many times and have no other refuge, at a time when Israel began its attack on Rafah since the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip, and directly bombed and targeted hundreds of areas and residential homes without prior warning.
Euro-Med Monitor warned that 213 days after the ongoing crime of genocide, the Zionist enemy forces want to carry out another large-scale attack in the city of Rafah without paying attention to the fate of hundreds of thousands of residents and displaced people who have sought refuge there since it was declared a safe zone from the enemy army.
Enemy forces continue to carry out the largest and most extensive forced displacement in modern history, forcing some two million Palestinians to flee and live in shelters and tents under military evacuation orders and under the weight of shelling and killing, more than half of whom are concentrated in the border city of Rafah.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" warned that any Zionist military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip will not be a "picnic" for the Zionist army, at a time of mounting fears about a possible invasion of the city.
The movement said, in a press statement, today: The steps taken by the enemy terrorist army in preparation for the attack on the city of Rafah, which is crowded with nearly a million and a half people and displaced people, and warning the population to evacuate the eastern areas of it, is a crime that confirms the determination of the terrorist Netanyahu government to continue the war of extermination against the Palestinian people.
The movement stressed that the Palestinian resistance, led by the Qassam Brigades, "is fully prepared to defend the Palestinian people, defeat this enemy, abort its plans and thwart its goals."
It called on "the international community to take urgent action to stop this crime, which threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, including children, women and the elderly."
It also called on "humanitarian organizations and bodies, led by UNRWA, to remain in their places in the city of Rafah and not to leave it, or to submit to the will of the fascist occupation, and to continue to play its role in providing assistance to the displaced unarmed civilians, who are subjected to the most heinous crimes due to the Zionist killing machine, which is infinitely supported by the US administration, a partner in the war of extermination.
The city of Rafah is considered the last haven for the displaced in the stricken Strip, since the beginning of the ground operation launched by the Zionist enemy forces on the Gaza Strip on October 27, citizens have been asked to go from the north and center of the Strip to the south, claiming that they are "safe areas."
Rafah extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the 1967 border in the east, and from the Egyptian border in the south to the border of Khan Yunis governorate in the north, and is separated from Jerusalem by 107 kilometers if it runs in a straight line in a north-eastern direction.
Today, Rafah is limited to an estimated area of 65 square kilometres, with more than 1.5 million Palestinians, the majority of whom have been forced to flee to seek safety.
The displaced face dire conditions in thousands of tents scattered across the city, even pavements overcrowded with tents and main roads turned into crowded markets.
The Rafah land crossing is considered a lifeline for the citizens of the Gaza Strip, and the only land access for the entry of aid and the evacuation of the wounded, and any military attack on Rafah means the denial of food and medical aid.
The Zionist enemy continues its aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, which resulted in the death of 34,735 Palestinians, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 78,108 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
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resource : Saba
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