Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s population of about 2.3 million (French)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, warned that Israel's statements - regarding military action towards the city of Rafah - are disturbing and constitute a danger to more than one and a half million Palestinians whom it ordered to go there.
Turk wrote, in a blog post on the X platform, that the international organization is concerned about the statements of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant regarding the military move to Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Gallant said - in a statement - that the Israeli army is achieving its mission in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, and that it will reach Rafah.
Turk added that these statements raise the alarm about the occurrence of large numbers of casualties and the further displacement to an unknown location of more than 1.5 million Palestinians who were ordered by the Israeli army to go to Rafah.
Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza's population, who were displaced by the war, and is also the main route for humanitarian aid to about 2,300,000 people in dire need of it.
Since January 22, the Israeli army has launched a series of intense air and artillery raids on Khan Yunis, and in the vicinity of the hospitals there, amid ground advances by its vehicles in the southern and western areas of the city, prompting thousands of Palestinians to flee from them.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of yesterday, Friday, left 27,131 martyrs and 66,287 injured, most of them children and women, according to the Palestinian authorities, and caused massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to the United Nations. .
Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia