The Palestinian presidency today condemned “in the most intense way” the Israeli plan for a military attack on Rafah, a city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that is home to more than a million Palestinians displaced by the war.

This plan, announced today by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “it is a real threat and a dangerous prelude” of the implementation of the Israeli political plan that aims to “displace the Palestinians from their land” adds the office of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement.

“The Palestinians will not leave their land and will not be forcibly displaced from their homeland“, continues the Palestinian presidency.

It calls on the UN Security Council to “take up its responsibilities” against the expansion of the “Israeli occupation”, which constitutes a “blatant violation of all red lines” and “threatens security and peace in the region and the rest of the world”.

“It’s time for everyone to take responsibility” to prevent “a new disaster that will drag the whole region into endless wars“, he estimates.

The Palestinian presidency also emphasizes that it will consider the Israeli government “fully responsible for the consequences” of this plan and that the US government bears the “primary responsibility to prevent what could be a catastrophic escalation”.

After the Israeli army concentrated its military operations in the Gaza Strip in the cities of Gaza (north) and then in Khan Yunis, further south, Netanyahu today asked him to submit a “combined design” “evacuation” of civilians from Rafah and “destruction” by Hamas in this last refuge of the displaced in the Palestinian territory.