'Thumbing its nose to the international community': Israel ignores 'red lines' in Rafah strikes
Palestinians flee with their belongings ride atop their vehicle in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. Israel i tanks have rolled into Rafah's city centre and its army announced that it now controls the entire Philadelphi Corridor, the strip of land that runs along Egypt's border with Gaza's Rafah Governorate.
It intensified air attacks on the area and ordered some 100 000 displaced Palestinians packed tightly there to evacuate to al-Mawasi which, aid organisations have said in horror, cannot support human life.By the next day, it had taken control of the Rafah land crossing, a death knell for aid deliveries into the besieged and battered Gaza Strip and its starving people.
Israel then captured part of the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt, which sees the move as a threat to its national security and the treaty between them. At least 45 civilians - half of them children - were burned to death, decapitated or otherwise killed by the blast. The ICJ ordered - 13 judges to two - Israel not to proceed with an operation in Rafah that undermines the rights of Palestinians under the Genocide Convention.It's difficult to interpret Israel's latest operation in Rafah as anything more than Israel thumbing its nose to the international community.
After Israel attacked the Tal as-Sultan displacement camp, the Biden administration deliberated, then concluded that Israel's gradual invasion of Rafah and ongoing bombardment of"safe zones" - which it had told beleaguered civilians to go to - did not constitute a"major offensive" that would trigger a response.
Rahman added that every single condemnation coming from Biden has been"walked back" by his own administration, signalling to Israel that they are not as frustrated as they claim to be.
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