The Australian | AFP | 26.04.24
When Oh when will the world wake up to this next tragedy – thousands more will be killed in Rafah by Netanyahu and his illegal Government – Mark
Palestinians on Thursday mourned people killed in Israeli bombardment of Rafah, the crowded southern Gaza city where Israel says it is advancing plans for a ground invasion.
Global concern has mounted over the looming operation against Hamas militants in Rafah, where much of Gaza’s population has sought refuge from more than six months of war in the narrow coastal strip.
Aid groups warn any invasion would add to already-catastrophic conditions for Gaza’s 2.4 million people.
Israeli officials have for more than two months vowed to enter Rafah, near the Egyptian border, but even before any ground operation the area has been regularly bombed, including overnight Wednesday-Thursday.
Rafah resident Abu Abdallah said “a very powerful strike” hit a house where displaced Gazans were sheltering.
“This is not a life,” he told AFP. “We can no longer live in our home, our neighbourhood, or walk anywhere. The war has been going on for too long.”
At the city’s Al-Najjar Hospital on Thursday, among the mourners were two men crouching, grief-stricken, in front of a white body bag.
Belgium said an Israeli strike on Rafah killed Abdallah Nabhan, 33, who worked for its Enabel development agency.
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