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How Israel pushed dotted ‘red lines’ to have its way in Rafah
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/30/how-israel-pushed-dotted-red-lines-to-have-its-way-in-rafah
Israel seems to have crossed all Western “red lines” with no apparent consequences or remorse for Palestinian casualties, experts have told Al Jazeera.
In February, all European Union members – except Hungary – warned Israel against a full-scale military operation on Rafah and the staggering human cost it would cause.
In March, United States President Joe Biden said a major Israeli invasion of Rafah would violate his self-declared “red line”, unless arrangements were made to protect and evacuate civilians.
As it scaled up air strikes and a ground assault on Rafah, Israel’s lawyers were telling the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on May 17, that it would be a “localised” operation.
Israeli tanks have rolled into Rafah’s city centre and its army announced that it now controls the entire Philadelphi Corridor, the strip of land that runs along Egypt’s border with Gaza’s Rafah Governorate.
This violates the conditions of its treaty with Egypt that stipulate the strip, also known as the Salah al-Din Axis, is a buffer zone that Egypt oversees from its side of the border.
Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Israel’s bombardment, adjunct to a UNRWA facility west of Rafah city, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 28
Jabalia refugee camp in ruins after Israeli withdrawal
Israeli forces appear to have now left Jabalia refugee camp after a military operation that lasted almost 20 days. Videos verified by Al Jazeera show camp residents walking around among the destroyed remnants of their homes and shelters.
The footage shows decomposing bodies in the streets of the camp after the Israeli army bulldozed a cemetery in the al-Faluja area and scattered the bodies of the dead among the surrounding alleys.
One of the officials of the shelters in Jabalia camp spoke about the destruction, saying, “What we found in Jabalia camp is different from everything we saw in the past, total destruction as you can see, the state of destruction cannot be described, I do not know where the displaced will go, there are no places now for people in the northern Gaza Strip province.”
Another resident of the camp said, “The destruction here is like 50 earthquakes hit the area, the exit of the Israeli army from this area does not mean anything because the area is no longer habitable.”
An Israeli army tank during military operations around Jabalia on May 30 [Israeli Army/Handout/AFP]
Nine killed in attack on family home in Beit Hanoon
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting yet another Israeli attack on northern Gaza, this one killing at least nine people. The attack, on a family home in Beit Hanoon, also injured a number of people, according to the report.
Earlier, we reported several strikes in northern Gaza that caused casualties, including one on a home in Shati camp, west of Gaza City, and another on a shelter for displaced Palesitnians.
