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Amnesty International warned - Monday - of a real and imminent danger of genocide threatening the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as there is nowhere for civilians to go to escape the bombing.
The international organization said - in a post on its account on the X platform - that the population of Rafah has multiplied five times since the start of the Israeli attack on Gaza on the seventh of last October.
The Israeli occupation army is preparing to launch a ground operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, after forcing residents of the northern Gaza Strip to seek refuge there to escape the battles in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
On Sunday evening, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that the Israeli army had approved an operational plan to launch a ground operation in Rafah, which is the last refuge for the displaced in the stricken sector.
Amnesty International confirmed that there is a real and imminent risk of genocide in Rafah, as there is nowhere for civilians to go to escape the bombing.
On Monday morning, the Israeli army launched a series of violent raids on various areas of the city, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in clear disregard for international warnings about the consequences of invading the city, which is crowded with displaced people.
Since the seventh of last October, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that, as of Monday, has left 28,340 martyrs and 67,984 injured, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands missing under the rubble, according to Palestinian and UN data.
Source: Anadolu Agency