‘Aid agencies have already said that the Rafah evacuation is impossible’ • FRANCE 24 English

What happens next is a huge question after that statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office on Friday calling on the Israeli armed forces and security establishment to draw up plans and submit those to the Israeli cabinet for a combined plan to launch a ground assault into Rafa to quote destroy the

Hamas battalions remaining there isra Israel says there are four Hamas Battalion in or under Rafa but a combined plan also to evacuate the civilians and there are nearing one and a half million civilians who’ve crowded into Rafa that city right in the south of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian

Border um many of them struggling to survive struggling to get food water and medicines Sheltering already in makeshift camps and and eeking out a a survival really an existence there so of course while um this is perhaps a nod to the US remarks that any um Invasion any

Offensive on Rafa uh that didn’t take due care of civilians um this is uh set to be a huge logistical operation Aid agency is already saying that it’s impossible Israel government spokesmen have hinted that this evacuation could be to other areas of the Gaza Strip open

Areas where they would set up huge camps for those people in Rafa but the scale and difficulties of such an evacuation um would be huge logistical challenges would take some time and would also uh throw into question the delivery of Aid to those people who desperately need it

Which at the moment has been coming through the Raffa Crossing so that has raised concerns and and a huge number of questions

Netanyahu’s planned offensive on Rafah, where an estimated 1.3 million people have fled, has drawn condemnation from rights groups and Washington, while Palestinians have said they have nowhere left to retreat.

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32 comments

  2. Pourquoi Netanyahu dit tous le monde a Rafah,Rafah est attaqué, Et en même temps Jérusalem…..
    Il faudrait une dissolution de Netanyahu, qui est un traître, envers le monde entier…😔😔

  5. I’m not surprised, UN and aid agencies also refused to help with the evacuation at the beginning of the war. Do they rather have them stay amongst the fighting?

  6. I think I speak for many of us when I say. Israel and Palestina. Grow up!! We are tired of your war. Figure it out yourself!

  8. Yes, it is impossible if you are a hamas or PIJ member to go far from the border of egypt because you know that you will be far from mercy even if you go along with innocent civilians. But, if you are an innocent civilian it is easy because you can focus on one thing which the evacuation without worry of being caught. Only hamas and sympathizers will worry about it. For those who decide to stay it is easy for the IDF to identify who those people are and perhaps an easy target for them. No innocent families will dare to stay knowing the fact that the IDF will launch an attack anytime soon.

  10. U.S and Eu eneded their Own repetition of Human rights and they took off their mask for the sake of Israel 🙂
    Palestinians Destroyed all those Propaganda and Mass Media BS about Eu and U.S are the Force of Good thanks for Removing your Mask and showed you Ugly face to our Children.
    Palestine freedom means the End of Biggest And Strongest apartheid Regime and it means the rest will fall right after it in Africa and such soon.
    Welcome to the New World.

  15. They said the same thing about gaza city – once the tanks rolled in, the gazans quickly found the desiginated escape routes. Sad the NGOs don't help before the mortal danger, but I guess that does raise funds like Israeli bashing does. I would believe Netanyahu over the media international law and humanitarian "experts" and start moving before it becomes chaos.

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  19. Hamas told the people to go to Rafah and the people listened not really believing that they would be human shields. IDF told them to go to Al Marwasi southwestern corner of Gaza next to the sea – but Hamas wants human shields

  20. The UN always speaks for Hamas – they should speak for democracy
    and international order, speak against terrorism

  26. If evacuation from the north was possible, so is this one. Israel has been doing things everyone, including the US, thought impossible. Like the evacuations from the North and from Khan Yunis. In the meantime, why is no one giving an alternative to the invasion in Rafah? What are they telling Israel?, To surrender to Hamas who are hiding behind the civilians?

  27. The video showed 400 tents with maximum 2K people. If there are 600 more tent cities like that (1.2 million people), can we see them?

    I think they made up the numbers (1.5 million refugees).

  30. Have Gazans considered revolting against Hamas to get the hostages released? Until that happens, it's very hard to feel too bad for them.

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