By News Desk
Egyptian officials have shared details of Israel’s alleged plan to evacuate Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering ahead of an announced Israeli ground offensive.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 13 February that the plan calls for displaced Palestinians to be “concentrated in the western area of the enclave, within the coastal strip,” along the sea.
Israel says it will establish 15 camp villages along the coast between Rafah and Gaza City in central Gaza. The areas included are south of Al-Mawasi and Sharm Park. Each camp will be equipped with 25,000 tents.
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Egyptian officials say that Israel expects the camps, which would include medical facilities, to be funded by the US and Arab states.
However, it is unlikely that over 1 million people could be safely evacuated.
Nadia Hardman, a refugee and migrant rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, stated, “Forcing the over one million displaced Palestinians in Rafah to again evacuate without a safe place to go would be unlawful and would have catastrophic consequences. There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza.”
If Israel proceeds with the offensive, its army will disrupt the already minimal aid entering Gaza and cause extensive destruction in Rafah, as it previously did in Gaza City and Khan Yunis. These action would exacerbate the uninhabitable conditions in Gaza, both during and after the war.
If Palestinians in Gaza are increasingly concentrated in tent camps along a tiny strip on Gaza’s coast, with no homes to return to, no functioning hospitals, and little food and humanitarian aid, this will enable Israel’s efforts to force Gaza’s population to ‘voluntarily’ flee to Egypt by land or other third parties by sea.
Israeli leaders have stated they wish to make life so difficult and dangerous for Palestinians in Gaza that the most humanitarian solution for them will be to leave Gaza and allow Israel to take it over for Jewish settlement.
The situation would resemble 1948, when Zionist militias forced Palestinians from Haifa to flee north to Lebanon by land and by boat from the city’s port.
While Gaza is on the brink of famine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from his far-right allies for allowing any aid at all, the WSJ reported further.
“The minimal aid we committed to is an important condition for the continuation of the war because if there is a large humanitarian collapse, we can’t continue the war,” he told reporters last week.
Israel in December reopened its Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza to allow the UN and NGOs to increase aid. However, right-wing protesters have repeatedly blocked humanitarian convoys at the crossing, and the Israeli army has not taken any action to remove them.
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11 responses to “Egypt reveals alleged Israeli plan to evacuate Rafah civilians”
Egypt have always been a willing complicit in Jewish terror and war crimes. The Egyptian dictatorship (political and military) leaders have enriched themselves from collaborating with the Jews by enforcing the Genocidal blockade on Gaza and starving Palestinian women and children.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.110MILLION RIGHTEOUS MINDED EGYPTIANS MUST RISE IF THEY
HAVE ANY HUMANITY AND FAITH.
Time for a worldwide intifada like the zionist racist repugnant apartheid regime and its squatters have never seen before. May these degenerates be pushed into the sea and washed far far away.
LONG LIVE RESISTANCE
LONG LIVE PALESTINE
Like their allies Azerbaijan they starved the Armenians in karabagh after attacking and ethnically cleansing.
Make no mistake The footprint is always Israel ..
Perhaps Hezbollah could deliver humanitarian aid while dealing effectively with Israeli resistance?
How despicable to see how all Arab/Muslim nations in that region totally fail to support Palestinians. Always the big talk but action? Backstabbing cowards.
And by being backstabbers, helping the Zion-Nazi cause.
An idea from Wikipedia : « Penal labor in the United States is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods. » Just change United States into Gaza and think : what a good trick for Israel, the closest powerful neighbor which needs very low wage workers !
A new step to civilization ! If « done in full respect of international law » , that’s more human than bomb them, isn’t it ?
JCB
Actually, it’s called slavery. 2 million slaves bend their backs every day for Uncle Sam.
The billions of dollars in aid being debated in the US would no doubt be used to build the refugee camps along the border with Egypt
Total ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Right in front of the world’s eyes with no one stopping it. The U-ASS, israel, and Egypt have had this planned already. Just allowing israel to slaughter as many Palestinians as possible for a certain amount of time then when the numbers get down to a few thousand or few hundred Egypt will allow those to come through to live in the desert in tent cities. Egypt gets paid “aid package money” to attend to the needs of those refugees. But Egypt will not spend it on them but will keep the money for itself. The leader of Egypt gets to stay in power and receive this “aid money” for his troubles. The israelis take Gaza and finish leveling it then rebuilds it for Jews only to live in. Israel also continues slaughtering the Palestinians in the west bank until they are wiped out and also the ones in East Jerusalem. Then israel will level the Al aqsa Mosque and all other mosques that once were in Palestine. Probably churches too but they might keep those for American Evangelical tourists who want to go there to show their love for “israel homeland for the Jews and the Jews only”. Then israel will build its big shining new temple in the place where Al aqsa sat. And the cowardly Muslim leaders will look on and do nothing but sit on their golden thrones until they die and go to hell.