Today, Friday, Palestinian factions called on the Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the occupied interior to launch a massive uprising in support of the Gaza Strip and to save the city of Rafah from what they described as a humanitarian catastrophe and a genocidal war.
The Follow-up Committee for the National and Islamic Forces, which includes the majority of the factions, said in a statement that the Israeli occupation began implementing its plan to invade Rafah and continue its ground operations “in which it agreed with its allies and supporters to do so,” according to what was reported by the Anatolia Agency.
The factions added that the occupation closed the border crossings and cut off relief and humanitarian supplies from the Gaza Strip, and targeted all areas that shelter displaced persons, “as our people in the Gaza Strip are exposed to the greatest catastrophe and genocide.”
The factions reaffirmed their full support for the Palestinian resistance, and called on them to do everything necessary to confront the occupation forces and protect the Palestinian people, and held Israel and the American administration fully responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe to which people in Rafah are exposed.
The statement called on Arab and Islamic countries, international and international institutions and bodies to open the crossings, especially the Rafah crossing, and to bring in relief and humanitarian aid according to previous mechanisms before the Israeli army occupied the crossing.
It also called on the Arab and Islamic peoples and “free people of the world” everywhere to hold marches, demonstrations and sit-ins in all capitals, cities, squares and universities against the “genocide and humanitarian catastrophe” in Rafah.
The statement considered that the occupation of the Rafah border crossing, under Egyptian-Palestinian sovereignty, constitutes a violation of international conventions and a threat to Arab national security in general and Egyptian national security in particular.
This comes as the occupation forces continue their ground attack in the areas east of Rafah since last Monday, causing the displacement of more than 100,000 Palestinians to the southwest of the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a devastating war for the 217th day, leaving tens of thousands martyred and wounded amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic, and a famine prevailing. On the besieged sector.