When seven months have passed since the beginning of the offensive on the Gaza Stripthe Israeli flag is already flying at the last point that had not yet been occupied in the Palestinian enclave: the Rafah border crossing. A day after thousands of leaflets and messages sent by the Army of Israel asked to evacuate the area, the tanks were already taking control of a region that had served as a refuge for more than a million displaced Palestinians who were fleeing the fighting in the north.
According to an Israeli Army spokesperson, the assault on the Gazan side of Rafah was carried out by the 401st brigade (composed mostly of tanks) and the elite Givati ​​brigade. According to the authorities of the Hebrew State, a large part of the population was able to seek refuge before the start of the operation, something that conflicts with the information that came out throughout yesterday from the ground, since There are hundreds of thousands of people there.. The Gazan government itself, in the hands of Hamas, warned that the evacuation order was having a “limited response.”
At least 18 Gazans died in the early morning this Tuesday due to the bombings that occurred in homes in the area that had received the evacuation order. At the moment the Israeli Army has only confirmed the death of 20 alleged militiamen in the eastern area of ​​Rafah with fighter jets and ground troops, in addition to having discovered three Hamas operational tunnels and destroying a vehicle with explosives.
Furthermore, the same military source has confirmed that the Kerem Shalom crossing (between Gaza and Israel) remains closed since the Hamas attack several days ago that killed several soldiers. Since then humanitarian aid has been blockedsomething that the UN has also warned about.
The United Nations has warned this Tuesday that Israel is not currently allowing aid to enter through the Rafah crossing that is now in its hands. “Israel’s defense forces are completely ignoring all warnings of what this could mean for civilians and for humanitarian operations throughout the Gaza Strip,” said Jens, spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office. Laerke.
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