Despite the weight that weighs a little more on his shoulders every day, Benjamin Netanyahu is not giving up.
The Israeli Prime Minister warned this Sunday, in a message delivered to his ministers, that “international pressure” would not prevent Israel from launching its ground offensive in Rafah in “a few weeks”, after ensuring the evacuation of civilians.
Always with the aim of achieving its initial war goal: “to eliminate Hamas, free our hostages, and ensure that Gaza will no longer be a threat to Israel”.
Announced at the beginning of February, such an assault would amount to a major escalation in the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in this town in the south of the Gaza Strip, regularly bombarded by the IDF for several weeks, where nearly 1.5 million people are crowded together. of Palestinians, according to the UN.
“Rafah is the last refuge to which these populations were forced to evacuate: they are today bloodless, exhausted, hungry and partly sick,” recalls Claire Magone, general director of Médecins Sans Frontières.
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