Israel-Gaza: Biden asserts that Israel ought to safeguard those in need in Rafah

Israel-Gaza: Biden asserts that Israel ought to safeguard those in need in Rafah

According to US President Joe Biden, those who are "packed in" and "exposed and vulnerable" in Rafah, Gaza Strip, need protection.

He warned that in order to save the over a million Palestinians seeking refuge in the southern part of Gaza City, Israel had to take "credible" measures.

Many claimed fatalities are the result of recent intense Israeli airstrikes on Rafah.

Rafah residents, a Palestinian doctor told the BBC, were living in dread.

last weekBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, had earlier said that he had given the order for soldiers to prepare for an extension of their foot battle to Rafah. He pledged to take out the Hamas fighters who were hiding out in the city.

According to UN human rights head Volumker Turk, many people would "likely be killed" in any strike, which would be "horrific".

The metropolis on the Egyptian border, which had just 250,000 residents before to the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in October, is now home to almost half of the 2.3 million people who call the Gaza Strip home.

Many of the displaced individuals are living in filthy tents or temporary shelters with little access to food and clean water to drink.

Two male Israeli-Argentine captives were freed on Sunday, according to an Israeli military statement, during an operation in Rafah.

The imminent Rafah strike by Israel has no intentions for civilians as of yet.

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President Biden met with King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday in Washington and made another plea for the safety of the residents living in Rafah.

According to him, "a credible plan to ensure the safety of the people living within should not proceed without any significant military operation in the city."

Many individuals who have been uprooted and relocated many times have fled to the north because to the violence, and now they are crammed into Rafah, where they are vulnerable and defenseless.

"We must safeguard them." Furthermore, we have made it quite clear from the start that we are against the forcible eviction of Palestinians from Gaza."

The White House said last week that it would not back any Israeli operations in Rafah unless the refugees there were given due attention.

Regarding the remainder of the Gaza Strip, which is a Palestinian region under Hamas rule, many Palestinians have left because to Israel's ground war.

Israel has received warnings from a number of nations and international organizations not to proceed with its impending invasion.

David Cameron, the foreign secretary for the United Kingdom, said on Monday that Israel need to "pause and think seriously" before moving further in Rafah.

Josep Borrell, the head of EU foreign policy, asked Israel's partners to cease supplying armaments because "too many people" were dying in Gaza.

Saudi Arabia threatened to take "very serious consequences" if an assault occurred on Rafah last week.

The leaders of Hamas in Gaza, meantime, warned that any action would also sabotage negotiations about the potential release of Israeli detainees held in the region and claimed that there may be "hundreds of thousands" of deaths.

Rafah, located near Egypt's border, is the sole accessible entrance point for humanitarian supplies into Gaza.

On October 7, the Israeli military began its incursion into the Gaza Strip after the murders of at least 1,200 people in southern Israel at the hands of militants associated with Hamas, who also kidnapped 253 others.

While several of the captives were eventually freed, Israel claims that 134 are still missing.

The Gaza health ministry, under Hamas control, said on Monday that there had been 200 injuries and 164 fatalities in Gaza on the previous day. According to the government, since October 7, there have been 28,340 Palestinian deaths and almost 68,000 injuries in the Gaza Strip.