In just four days, some 120,000 people have fled Rafah to areas of the Gaza Strip they consider less dangerous. According to the UN, “about 30,000 people flee the city every day.”
Israel’s prime minister has threatened to launch a major ground offensive on Rafah as he believes it is home to Hamas’s last major stronghold. The city has thus become the center of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, and residents and displaced persons are once again forced to flee.
The situation is on the verge of disaster. More than two million people suffer from food shortages, and the UN is unable to deliver water, food and fuel to the ground. Even patients and staff were forced to leave Rafah hospitals. Images of death, suffering and devastation. There are civilians who have had to move five or six times since the conflict began to try to survive. UNICEF is concerned about the displacement of people into “unsafe” areas such as Al-Mawasi, an area without basic infrastructure in the ruins of the city of Khan Younis.
Author: Rita Monteiro
Source: CM Jornal
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