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Israel advances deeper into Rafah; The US says it has no plan to protect civilians

2024-05-12 21:50:43Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Israel advances deeper into Rafah; The US says it has no plan to protect
Israel advances deeper into Rafah; The US says it has no plan to protect civilians

Israeli forces advanced deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel has not provided the United States with a credible plan to protect the more than one million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. or a plan of what is expected to happen when the seven-month war is over.

About 300,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians who moved to southern Gaza months ago on orders from the Israeli military to escape attacks by Hamas militants in northern Gaza have been ordered to move again, this time northwest of Rafah, to a territory along the Gaza coastline on the Mediterranean Sea.

But Mr. Blinken told the NBC television network on Sunday that there is no specific Israeli plan to protect the Palestinians or provide them with sufficient humanitarian aid.

"There's something else that's important. We also haven't seen a plan for what will happen one day, after the end of the war in Gaza. But what will happen even if Israel goes in and takes heavy action in Rafah , it will be that with thousands (of Hamas militants), armed, they will continue to remain there".

The senior American diplomat added that "Washington has seen in the areas that Israel has cleared in the north, even in Khan Younis, the return of Hamas militants".

"So the situation we are in now is that even if Israel goes into Rafah to deal with these four remaining battalions, especially in the absence of a plan to protect civilians, it risks doing terrible harm to civilians and not solve the problem, a problem that both the US and Israel want to solve, by making sure that Hamas will no longer be able to rule Gaza," Mr Blinken said.

Meanwhile, early Sunday morning, Israel sent tanks to the Jabalin refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, after a night of heavy air and ground bombardment that killed 19 and wounded dozens, according to officials. of health in Gaza.

Jabalia is the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, home to more than 100,000 people, most of them descendants of Palestinians who were expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that led to the creation of the state of Israel.

On Saturday evening, the Israeli military said that forces operating in Jabalia are preventing Hamas from re-establishing its military capabilities there.

"We identified last weeks efforts by Hamas to rehabilitate its military capabilities in Jabalia. We are operating there to thwart those efforts," said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel's military spokesman, during a press conference.

Mr. Hagari also said that Israeli forces killed about 30 Palestinian militants in Zeitoun, Gaza City.

"The bombings from the air and the ground have not stopped since yesterday, they were bombing everywhere even near schools that shelter people who lost their homes," said Saed, 45, a resident of Jabaliat.

"The war is starting again, this is what it looks like in Jabalia," he told Reuters via a messaging app. "The new attack is forcing many families to evacuate," he added.

The army sent tanks back to Al-Zeitoun, an area on the outskirts of Gaza City, as well as Al-Sabra, where residents also reported heavy shelling that destroyed several houses, including high-rise residential buildings.

The army claimed to have taken control of most of these areas months ago./VOA


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