Israel’s defense minister has signaled that ground forces will advance toward the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has become a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians pushed from their homes by nearly 13 weeks of war.
Rafah, which has also been a gateway for humanitarian aid, is a sprawl of tents and makeshift shelters crammed against the border with Egypt. About half of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have piled into and around the city, where about 200,000 people lived before the war, the United Nations said on Friday.
The city is one of the last in southern Gaza that Israeli ground forces, which have been fighting house-to-house battles in nearby Khan Younis, have not yet reached.
Remember when the government and apologist propaganda was that it couldn’t be war crimes because they warned civilians to relocate from the fighting in the northern parts to the south (which is in itself the war crime of forced mass relocation. Think Trail of Tears.)?
Palestinian farmers remember.
And designated safe corridors and then bombed the corridors.
Oh! And cut off electricity and the internet, yet somehow everyone was magically supposed to know where they were going to attack and where was “safe” despite having no way to actually hear that information.
The terms of what’s considered “war crimes” have changed… pray that they don’t change any further!