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So where else should the people of Rafah go, more than a million of them, most displaced several times and living in tents?
Israel appears to have given at least a nod to US demands this week that it take the necessary steps to protect civilian life as it plans its next move in Rafah.
After a war cabinet meeting last night, the prime minister's office released a statement saying they were working on a two-pronged plan to evacuate civilians from the Rafah area, even as they try to eliminate what they say are four Hamas brigades. that they are operational there.
The real concern on that note is the terminology surrounding the operation, which Israel says will be "massive." There is nowhere further south for the civilian population of Gaza to go, beyond the opening of the Rafah crossing and the spill into Sinai. Egypt is convinced that this will not happen.
A Palestinian and potentially militant presence in Sinai could bring the war to Egyptian soil, undermining the hard-won 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. This is the last thing Egypt wants.
So where else should the people of Rafah go, more than a million of them, most displaced several times and living in tents?
Yes, Israel can filter them further north, but there is precious little infrastructure for them there, even less than what is left in Rafah. However, another evacuation order requires contingency planning for humanitarian support.
Israel doesn't seem to have one, and neither do the remaining aid agencies in Gaza, who are struggling to feed and house even their own staff, let alone provide for the rest. A serious situation promises only deterioration./ SkyNews
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