Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, on Saturday, after Israeli warnings to evacuate before an imminent military assault that will open a bloody new phase of the seven-month-long conflict.
Roads leading out of Rafah were choked with long columns of young and old, sick and healthy, riding in overloaded pick-up trucks and battered cars, in pony carts and on hand-pulled trolleys. Many walked, carrying their belongings, under a searing summer sun. Some were pushed in wheelchairs or even carried.
More than 150,000 people have fled Rafah – one of the largest displacements for many months – since the Israel Defense Forces ordered the evacuation of eastern neighbourhoods shortly before seizing the border crossing with Egypt to the east of the city on Tuesday in what the IDF said was a “precise, limited operation” to stop Hamas smuggling weapons or funds into Gaza.
Thanks Biden.
Joe Biden, solely responsible for decades of conflict in the region that has recently come to a head.
We must go back 3000 years to understand the nuances of sending weapons to israel so they can commit Genocide.
Yo I want him to cut aid to Israel too, but pinning the blame solely on him is asinine.
He’s literally the guy in charge
Man, I don’t think I could devise a way to more rapidly turn the vast majority of the civilized world against my country if I tried. Netanyahu is turning Israel into a pariah state.
Bibi better watch his back! If he goes through with this Joe Biden MAY or MAY give him more Weapons!