Israel’s new plan for vulnerable civilians in Rafah has left many questions unanswered ahead of an imminent ground invasion.
military has revealed a new plan to evacuate a significant portion of the 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah ahead of the looming ground offensive approved by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
The concerns coincide with a flurry of backlash against Israel over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which has been deteriorating ever since the. Aid distribution in Gaza has been restricted, and human rights organizations have been warning that the amount of aid flowing in is not enough. At leastof malnutrition and dehydration in the north, according to The Washington Post, adding to an already catastrophic civilian death toll.
“When you are going to conduct the attacks, which the IDF certainly is, there is a legal obligation to warn the civilian population that those attacks are going to occur, so long has the attacks will affect the population, which these very obviously will,” Schmitt said But if the Israelis are “not in effective control of territory,” Schmitt added, “the Israeli obligation is to allow aid to be given to the civilian population, and cannot impede arbitrarily the transfer of aid into those areas.”
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