The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, condemned in the strongest terms the attack that targeted the tents of displaced people in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. While international condemnations of the attack continued, a World Health Organization official said that the last hospital in Rafah may go out of service.
Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, “The Israeli authorities must allow, facilitate and enable the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need, and all crossings must be opened,” calling for the “horror and suffering to stop immediately.”
For his part, Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, today described the new Israeli attacks on Rafah as a massacre, and called for the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s decision ordering Israel to stop its attack on the city.
Tragic
In turn, German Chancellor Olaf Schulz described the bombing of a camp for displaced persons and the killing of many innocent people as tragic, stressing that Israel must adhere to international law in its actions in Gaza.
Schultz added that the Israeli government bears responsibility for ensuring that the necessary aid reaches the Gaza Strip, pointing out that Berlin is “in close contact with the mediators in the United States, Egypt and Qatar, and we are very grateful for their tireless efforts.”
While the US State Department said that Washington had contacted Israel to express its deep concern about what happened in Rafah and that it would follow up on the results of the investigation that Israel pledged to conduct in relation to that incident, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that the developments in Rafah are tragic and unacceptable, calling on the UN Security Council By intervention.
Last hospital
Today, Tuesday, a World Health Organization official said that the last hospital in Rafah may be out of service and that a large number of deaths may be expected if Israel carries out a “comprehensive invasion” of the city.
Richard Peppercorn, the representative of the World Health Organization in Gaza and the West Bank, added: “If the incursion continues, we will lose the last hospital in Rafah,” on the sidelines of a meeting in Geneva.
This comes in light of the occupation forces continuing to bomb several areas in Gaza, and confirmations from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip and the Emergency Committee in Rafah that the occupation committed a new massacre today against displaced people in Rafah’s Mawasi, which claimed the lives of more than 20 martyrs and dozens of wounded, a day after the “Khiam Massacre” in City.