“All eyes on Rafah” (“All eyes on Rafah”). With these words, at least 28 million users on the social networking platform Instagram are protesting the dead of the Israeli army strikes in the south of the Gaza Strip calling, here and now, for a ceasefire.
By Athena Papakosta
“Gaza is hell on Earth” he announced a few 24 hours ago UN Refugee Agency. Israel, however, neither hears nor sees. It insists on continuing with its military operations, as it did on Sunday, when it bombed a refugee camp in Tal Al Sultan, two kilometers from Rafah, and UN counter-tents housing displaced civilians in the Palestinian enclave went up in flames with women, children and the elderly. to be burned alive while they slept.
“All eyes on Rafah” (“all eyes on Rafa”). With these words, at least 28 million users on the social networking platform Instagram are protesting the dead of the Israeli army strikes in the south of the Gaza Strip calling, here and now, for a ceasefire.
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Despite the international outcry, however, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers are now reportedly in the center of Rafah, near the Al-Awda mosque. The same information states that they also advanced on the Zorub hill, giving Israel full control of the Philadelphia Corridor, the small strip of land along the Israel-Egypt border.
Israel’s ground military operations in the Rafah area began on May 6 with the Israeli Armed Forces insisting they were only hitting “terrorist targets” with new reports however of another strike in the al-Mawashi humanitarian zone, west of Rafah, with 21 people dead and new images of seriously injured people next to tents fill the Social Media again. At the same time, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, new shelling occurred again in Tal Al Sultan with 16 people losing their lives, seven of whom were next to a UN facility, 200 meters away from where it was targeted by airstrikes. raids on Sunday.
According to the United Nations, for three weeks, as long as the operation of the Israeli armed forces in Rafah lasts, at least one million civilians have been displaced, but thousands of displaced people remain in the area, who speak of days and nights of terror, stating that they have nowhere else to go. in fear of the ongoing fighting and the tragic humanitarian situation that prevails.
The United States, a key ally of Israel, is refusing to say whether Israeli ground operations constitute a violation of the “red line” set by Washington with the State Department buying time by first awaiting the results of Tel Aviv’s investigation into the airstrikes. of Sunday and the at least 45 dead in Tal Al Sultan.
However, since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, more than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed and despite the decision of the International Court of Justice, last Friday, which ordered Israel to stop, it continues its attacks until, as it claims, the achievement of its goals. The endurance of the international community is drying up with three European countries, Spain, Norway and Ireland, recognizing the Palestinian state and Israel being driven slowly but steadily towards isolation.
Source :Skai
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