Posted on 02/13/2024 7:40:46 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
Amid growing international concern over the Israel Defense Forces’ plans to conquer the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah, Israel has drawn up an evacuation plan for civilians along the coast, according to a Tuesday report.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the plan envisions 15 sites containing 25,000 tents each across Gaza, running from the southern edge of Gaza City down to the Al Mawasi area north of Rafah.
Israel has presented the plan to Egypt in recent days, the report said.
An official in the Prime Minister’s Office told The Times of Israel that there are several plans under discussion, none of which have been approved yet.
Rafah, which sits on the Gaza-Egypt border, is the target of the next IDF offensive, according to Israeli leaders. The US and regional allies have warned of the humanitarian dangers of the IDF moving into the city, in which more than 1 million Gazan refugees are sheltering.
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to provide “safe passage” for civilians out of Rafah without specifying where the large number of people massed near the border with Egypt would go.
Citing Egyptian officials, the WSJ report said that Israel expects the camps, which would include medical facilities, to be funded by the US and Arab partners.
Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the UNs Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Tuesday that it had not been informed of any Israeli evacuation plan and was not a part of it.
“Where are you going to evacuate people to, as no place is safe across the Gaza Strip, the north is shattered, riddled with unexploded weapons, it’s pretty much unlivable,” she said.
“Enough is enough. Any further escalation would be absolutely apocalyptic.”
The United Nations “will not be party” to any forced displacement of Palestinians currently living in Rafah, the spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the previous day.
Netanyahu reportedly believes that, in the face of international pressure, Israel only has one month left to complete its operation in Rafah, aimed at dismantling the Hamas terror group’s remaining operational battalions in Gaza.
According to a Channel 12 news report, the prime minister recently told the small war cabinet that the operation will need to be completed before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins around March 10.
Last week, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Netanyahu had directed the IDF to draft a plan for evacuating the civilians in Rafah so that the operation could move forward.
Military historians will be writing about this campaign for a long time to come.
Why isn’t the UN forcing Egypt to take on non-Jihadi Gazans?
>>Why isn’t the UN forcing Egypt to take on non-Jihadi Gazans?
Possibly because there are no “non-Jihadi Gazans”.
I think you may be on to something.....
As it happens, “non-Jihadi Gazans” are as mythical as unicorns.
To be fair, the current gov’t of Egypt doesn’t deserve them.
Some jihadis are on the field and the rest are on the bench, but, they are ALL on the same team.
Perfect!! Now, right next to the ‘innocent’ Gazans, set up a few more tents and move the UN there. No more limousines, but hey, a view of the water.
Oh, beach front eh.
But it is all right to slaughter and mass rape Jews on Simchat Torah.
There simply isn’t any way that Israel will leave even one toilet under Hamas’ control in Gaza. They will be killed, imprisoned or driven out. And the big shots will be hunted down one by one.
Hamas and their meth-head army cashed a check their ass couldn’t pay.
It is time to meet your creator.
Hmmm...tents of Edom / Psalm 83?
Funny she should put it that way. Actually, if you’re destroyed in the Apocalypse, it doesn’t mean you’re a victim. Quite the opposite.
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My family paid good money to live in a tent by the ocean every year - Myrtle Beach. Why are these people being rewarded? /s
EC
This is what we need to do along the desert section of our border.
Attacks/invasions are many times the easy part. Its the occupations that are difficult. Look at 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon.
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