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Adnan Abu Hasna, media advisor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), painted a bleak picture of the conditions in the northern Gaza Strip, the area that observers and analysts believe may be the destination of the Palestinians, who will be forced to leave Rafah Governorate (south of the Gaza Strip) in the event of an occupation attack. militarily there.

Abu Hasna said - in his interview with the program “Gaza... What Next?” - that the northern Gaza Strip is an unlivable place, due to the destruction practiced by the occupation army over the past months, and that the people there are starving from hunger. Because the occupation prevented the entry of aid from food, fuel and water.

He confirmed that UNRWA is ready to bring the aid accumulated in the port of Ashdod into the northern Gaza Strip, if Israel agrees to do so.

In light of the devastation witnessed in the north and the suffering of people due to the scarcity of food, water and medicines, the UNRWA media advisor confirms that the pressures on this region will increase if the occupation invades Rafah.

Starvation war

In the opinion of the expert in international and European affairs, Hossam Shaker, what is happening in the Gaza Strip in general is a war of starvation and impoverishment of the Palestinian people, to which the American administration and European countries contributed. By imposing sanctions on UNRWA.

In Hossam’s assessment, the American administration is putting pressure on Israel with empty words, and it is still giving cover to the Israeli occupation to annihilate the Palestinian people, warning that American discomfort with Tel Aviv will not lead to pressure to prevent the invasion of Rafah, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans.

Stuck people organize continuous protests in front of the Rafah crossing gate to demand the opening of the crossing. (Al Jazeera)

Regarding the phone call - today, Sunday - between US President Joe Biden and Netanyahu, the expert in international and European affairs suggested that it dealt with the Israeli move in Rafah, and he said that Washington realizes that the issue of the invasion of Rafah is linked to the completion of the campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and forced displacement, and he did not rule out that it was Egypt is a potential destination for Palestinians.

Israeli Channel 12 said that Biden expressed, in his call with Netanyahu, his concern about the impact of a military operation in Rafah on the humanitarian situation, and stressed his point of view that this operation should not continue without a reliable and implementable plan, and the necessity of having a plan to ensure the safety and support of more than a million people. They took refuge in Rafah.

According to the expert on Israeli affairs, Muhannad Mustafa, there is an agreement between the political and military leadership in Israel to invade Rafah, but the disagreement between them revolves around the implementation mechanism, as the army has reservations about the operation. Because "he wants there to be clear understandings with Egypt that are based on a common matter, which is that Israel does not want to remain in the Salah al-Din axis."

The Egyptians, for their part, fear - the expert adds - that Israel, through the military operation in Rafah, adjacent to the Egyptian border, will push the people of the Gaza Strip to flee to Egypt, which for it is a red line and part of its national security.

He believes that the deep state and the military establishment in Israel realize the importance of the strategic relationship with Egypt, and that this relationship is more important than the Rafah operation in the long term. In the context of his speech, the expert described Egypt’s role as important and effective in the Rafah issue, stressing that “Egypt can play a role in Stop the Israeli military operation in Rafah.

Yesterday, Saturday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry warned of developments in the situation in Rafah, saying that they portend a deterioration in the Strip, with dire repercussions.

Source: Al Jazeera