Leaflet instructs Palestinians to leave southern Gaza city as Benjamin Netanyahu shuns pressure from Joe Biden

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.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      From tiktok streams and videos, a lot are fleeing north, against the advisement of the Israeli government/IDF.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Joe Biden, solely responsible for decades of conflict in the region that has recently come to a head.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        We must go back 3000 years to understand the nuances of sending weapons to israel so they can commit Genocide.

        • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yo I want him to cut aid to Israel too, but pinning the blame solely on him is asinine.

          • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I hold him personally responsible for sending weapons to Israel, even to the point of doing a run-around Congress, to supply them with the means to commit genocide. In addition i hold him, a self-described zionist, personally responsible for deliberately tying recent college protests of that genocide to antisemitism, saying:

            “This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust,” he said. “It didn’t end with the Holocaust, either.”

            Yes, it’s 100% bidens choice to continue sending weapons to commit genocide. And to allow dissent of his, of our, part in it, to be crushed.