GAZA May 10. 2024 (Saba) - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said on Friday that the US administration's announcement that the Zionist military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, is "limited" to mislead and disregard the lives of civilians in light of their killing, starvation and displacement.
Palestinian civilians are paying a heavy price for the Zionist military offensive on Rafah, which continues for the fourth consecutive day amid US support and global silence claiming it is a limited offensive.
"We have documented the rise in the toll of the Zionist attack on Rafah since the beginning of this month to 97 martyrs, including 35 children and 17 women, most of them since the start of the ground incursion and the occupation of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on the seventh of this month," Euro-Med Monitor added.
He pointed out that the aforementioned toll is for the victims who arrived at hospitals, while there are data on the fall of other victims who cannot be recovered from the areas of incursion or from under the rubble of houses destroyed by Zionist raids, in light of the targeting of about 190 housing units, "many of which were destroyed above the heads of their inhabitants."
He pointed out that the majority of the martyrs documented by our field team fell in the center and west of Rafah, while it is impossible to obtain sufficient information about what is happening east of Rafah, which indicates that what the US administration announces that the Zionist operation in the city is limited is just misinformation.
He stressed that US President Joe Biden and his administration are practicing a process of misleading world public opinion, by promoting that the Rafah operation is limited and that there are red lines for Israel, and that the Kerem Shalom crossing is open to the movement of humanitarian supplies.
"What is happening on the ground is permissible with air and artillery bombardment of all Rafah neighborhoods and buildings, and the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings are completely closed and the movement of aid supplies is suspended," he said.
He pointed out that the failure to enter fuel supplies and run out of warehouses will lead to the cessation of humanitarian efforts in Gaza within days, and will have serious repercussions on the work of hospitals and ambulance and rescue services, which are already partially operational.
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resource : Saba
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