During the night of Wednesday and the morning of Thursday, “a significant amount of shelling” was recorded in eastern Ráfah. Humanitarian aid no longer enters Gaza through any crossing, which is completely isolated by the Israeli siege.
Around 80,000 Palestinians have fled over the last three days from the city of Rafahon the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, after the start of the umpteenth attack by the Israeli Army, which has increased its bombings against the city and has taken the Palestinian side of the border crossing, as reported this Thursday by the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
UNRWA, through its account on the social network X, has said that “the burden on these families it is unbearable. No place is safe.” In this sense, the agency has regretted that “people are facing another forced displacement in the Gaza Strip” and has reiterated its call for a ceasefire, days after ensuring that it would not proceed. to the evacuation of its personnel from Ráfah despite calls in this regard by Israel and the beginning of its incursion.
According to testimonies to EFE, for many of the Gazans forced to evacuate Rafah it may be their third or fourth forced displacement in the last seven months.
The agency has indicated that during the day on Wednesday 47,500 people moved from Ráfah and has added that these people are fleeing with what they can transport “in vehicles, trucks, motorcycles and donkey carts” in the direction of the UNRWA shelters in Tel Sultan and Al Mauasi.
Likewise, he stressed that during the night of Wednesday and the morning of Thursday “a significant number of bombings” have been recorded in the east of Ráfah, due to the alarm by security agencies. UN about the lack of aid for the Gazan population, already in a very vulnerable situation.
A situation that has worsened after the closure of the Ráfah land crossing, taken by Israeli tanks on Tuesday, and from where an average of 48 trucks with humanitarian aid and 166,000 liters of diesel entered Gaza daily, according to the UN.
More than 600,000 children live in overcrowded conditions
“Rafah is a city of children,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday. In Ráfah, more than 600,000 children live in overcrowded conditions, according to a report by UNICEF in which he warned that they are “highly vulnerable and on the verge of survival.”
“Without fuel, trucks will not be able to transport critical humanitarian assistance, water pumps will stop working and remaining hospitals will close“, warned the director of UNRWA last night, Philippe Lazzariniin your X account.
At the other crossing in the south, that of Kerem ShalomNor is any aid being distributed to Gaza, UNRWA and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) have confirmed, despite Israel’s claim to reopen it on Wednesday.
For his part, the president of the United States, Joe Bidenhas stated for the first time that it will stop sending weapons to Israel in case it begins “a large-scale incursion into Rafah”, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians take refuge, most of them displaced from other parts of the territory. Palestinian after more than seven months of attacks, believing it could be used to kill civilians.
Source: Eitb
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