As Israel threatens to launch a military ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, members of the international community — including Canada — are urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reconsider.
As Israel threatens to launch a military ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, members of the international community — including Canada — are urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reconsider.
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As Israel threatens to launch a military ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, members of the international community — including Canada — are urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reconsider.
In a joint statement released Wednesday night, the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand said they are “gravely concerned” by indications that Israel is planning an offensive, saying it would be “catastrophic” if carried out.
Earlier this week, U.S. President Joe Biden told Netanyahu that Israel shouldn’t launch a military operation into Rafah without a credible plan to ensure the safety of Palestinians sheltering there.
Dutch Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot called it “unjustifiable,” saying on Tuesday that it was “hard to see how large-scale operations in such a densely populated area would not lead to many civilian casualties and a bigger humanitarian catastrophe.”
One doctor who recently left Gaza described Rafah as a “closed jail,” with fecal matter running through streets so crowded that there is barely space for medics’ vehicles to pass.
Andrea De Domenico, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says a mass evacuation of Rafah would be “simply catastrophic.”
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