Israel – Gaza | “Anyone who moves is shot by Israeli drones”: fear of Palestinians in Rafah due to Israeli military attack
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According to information coming from the place, Israeli forces reached the center of Rafah city in southern Gaza this Tuesday and captured a strategically important mountain located on the close border with Egypt.
Eyewitnesses and local journalists said the tanks were parked at Al Awda crossing, considered a key landmark.
He also said there were tanks on Mount Zoroub, effectively giving Israel control Philadelphia CorridorA narrow strip of land that runs along a border to the sea.
“People are inside their homes right now Israeli drones shoot down anyone who moves forward” local resident Abdel Khatib told news agency AFP.
“The situation is very dangerous”said neighbour Faten Chouda, 30. “We didn’t sleep all night. There was random shelling from all directions, including artillery and aerial shelling as well as firing from aircraft,” he said.
“We saw everyone running again,” he told AFP. “Now we will run too.” Al Mawasi Because We fear for our lives” he said, referring to a nearby coastal area that Israel has declared a “humanitarian and safe zone.”
Controlled by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza HamasThe Palestinian city lacks the capacity to deal with the consequences of the Israeli attack on Sunday afternoon, especially after its hospitals were put out of service, the Palestinians said.
Thousands of Palestinians fled to the area when the Israeli military operation in Rafah began earlier this month, according to maps and leaflets distributed a few days earlier, which Israel classified as “humanitarian and safe.”
“People are taking shelter in camps. They attacked shops, all the people inside were innocent childrenThere were no fighters, nothing. They were all children,” one witness told the BBC while helping at the hospital.
According to Palestinian sources, on Sunday afternoon Israeli warplanes bombed the tents of these displaced people near warehouses of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, burning them down.
Gaza Civil Defense assured that the fire burned the bodies of dozens of people.
And some victims who survived the bombing had their hands amputated.
,There is no such thing as safe child, old person or woman. Here a man and his wife were martyred leaving behind their innocent children. Another witness said, “What was the fault of these children in becoming orphans?”
Palestinians said the latest attack came amid intensified Israeli bombardment of Rafah as well as its ground incursions into the eastern and southern areas of the border town.
“The situation is very serious. The Israeli occupation deliberately attacks civilians everywhere. The Israeli occupation declared it a safe and humanitarian zone and yet it bombed civilians, children and women. “This is the Israeli occupation army,” Marwan al-Hams, director of Al Najar hospital, told the BBC.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said Monday that images from the day of the attack were “testimony to how Rafah has become hell on earth.”
Israeli operations increased after the International Court of Justice on Friday demanded that Israel immediately cease its military activities in Rafah.
With reporting by Adnan El Barsh in Rafah
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