The US is as bad as Israel, actually worse since the US created this situation by giving Israel the weapons and impunity to do whatever they want.
US: No major Israeli operation in Rafah
The United States has not yet seen Israel launch a major military operation in southern Rafah, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says.
Israel’s attacks are not of the “size, scope or scale” of operations conducted elsewhere in Gaza, Miller said in a briefing for reporters. “It’s been a more limited operation.”
The comments come after weeks of strikes that have killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinian civilians in the southernmost city where hundreds of thousands are trapped.
It doesn't matter how 'major' the operation is. fact is, over a million people displaced again, Rafah continues to get bombed (including 45 dead in the tent massacre) All aid through Rafah and nearly all through Kerem Shalom has been cut off since the invasion. Hospitals are all closed in Rafah or out of supplies, there is nowhere for people to go to.
The US is full of shit, endorsing starvation of 2.3 million people. (Oh yeah that pier: US military may again temporarily dismantle pier off the coast of Gaza due to rough sea conditions not that the fraction of aid arriving there can be distributed)
Street fighting surges in Rafah in ‘close-quarters encounters’
Israeli helicopter gunships, drones and jets attacked Rafah with Palestinian fighters engaging Israeli troops in running street battles.
Hamas said its soldiers fought Israeli troops on the streets of Gaza’s southernmost city. Western areas of Rafah came under heavy fire on Thursday, residents said.
“There was very intense fire from warplanes, Apaches [helicopters] and quadcopters in addition to Israeli artillery and military battleships, all of which were striking the area west of Rafah,” one unnamed resident told the AFP news agency.
Israel’s military said troops carried out “targeted operations in the area of Rafah” and killed several fighters “in close-quarters encounters”.
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Rafah
Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports that two were killed and several others were injured when Israel launched an air raid on the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of western Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip.
Earlier today, we reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was told that western Rafah would be the next target of Israeli attacks.
Israel’s military has not issued new evacuation orders in Rafah but a Palestinian activist has reported that the Israeli military issued a warning to people in western Rafah’s “al-Alam of a military operation in the next 24 hours”, according to a report from US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats Project.
US-Muslim group calls on Biden to ‘stop enabling’ starvation of Gaza children
The call by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) comes as the head of the World Health Organization warned this week that 8,000 Palestinian children under age five have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition in Gaza.
“Our government is complicit in one of the most barbaric atrocities to take place before the eyes of the world in recent memory,” CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.
“The World Health Organization has verified that thousands of children in Gaza are now facing starvation because of the Biden administration’s support for the Israeli government’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing,” he said.
“Enough is enough. It is time for President Biden to stop enabling this atrocity, start using American leverage, and force the Israeli government to end its genocidal war.”
Palestinian children wait for food being distributed at a camp for internally displaced people in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on June 11
