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Netanyahu GENOCIDE-Now Controls Gaza Land Border After Women & Children BURNT ALIVE
Israel is in Effective Control of Entire Gaza Land Border After Taking Philadelphi Corridor in South
The IDF says that it is in ‘operational’ control of the buffer zone on Egypts’ border, a move which risks complicating relations with Cairo, amid Rafah offensive
The Guardian 30 MAY 2024
Israeli troops are seen near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel. The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it has gained full operational control of the Philadelphi Corridor.
Israel is in effective control of Gazas’ entire land border after taking control of a buffer zone along the border with Egypt, Israels’ military has said, a move that risks complicating its relationship with Egypt.
In a televised briefing on Wednesday, chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israeli forces had gained “operational” control over the Philadelphi Corridor, using the Israeli military’s code name for the 14km-long corridor along the Gaza Strip’s only border with Egypt.
Hagari did not spell out what “operational” control referred to, but an Israeli military official earlier said there were Israeli “boots on the ground” along parts of the corridor. The border with Egypt along the southern edge was Gazas’ only land border that Israel had not controlled directly.
“The Philadelphi Corridor served as an oxygen line for Hamas, which it regularly used to smuggle weapons into the area of the Gaza Strip,” Hagari said, claiming that troops had “discovered around 20 tunnels” in the area.
Egypt’s state-linked Al-Qahera News reported a “high-level Egyptian source” as saying that Israel was using claims of tunnels under Egypt’s border with Gaza as cover for its Rafah offensive.
“There is no truth to Israeli media reports of the existence of tunnels on the Egyptian border with Gaza,” the source told Al-Qahera, which is linked to state intelligence. “Israel is using these allegations to justify continuing the operation on the Palestinian city of Rafah and prolonging the war for political purposes.”
Egypt has previously said it has destroyed hundreds of cross-border tunnels with Gaza since 2013.
The Philadelphi corridor is part of a larger demilitarised zone along both sides of the entire Israel-Egypt border. Under a peace accord, each is allowed to deploy only a tiny number of troops or border guards in the zone. At the time of the accord, Israeli troops controlled Gaza.
Earlier this month, Israel and Egypt became embroiled in a diplomatic row after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seized control of the Rafah crossing. The capture of the corridor signals that Israel has deepened its offensive in southern Gaza and further threatens relations with Egypt.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah, after moving into the heart of the city for the first time on Tuesday despite an order from the top United Nations court to immediately halt the assault on the city.
As Israel expanded its offensive in Rafah, a top Israeli official said that Israel’s war with Hamas is likely to last through to the end of the year.
National security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi told Kan public radio he was “expecting another seven months of fighting” to destroy the military and governing capabilities of Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group.
“The army is achieving its objectives but [it] said from the first days it was presenting its plan to the cabinet that the war will be long,” he said. “They have designated 2024 as a year of war.”
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They Thought Were Mentally Prepared to Help Treat People in Rafah, Despite the Danger to Their Own Lives
Global Dispatch. 29 May 2024
But what they and other foreign volunteers faced was beyond anything they could have imagined
in the Gaza Strip was incredible bravery by .
They were part of a group of international doctors voluntarily helping treat victims of Israel’s continuing offensive in Gaza, as well as training local medical staff. But nothing could prepare them for the suffering and violence they saw, which they described in an interview with Thaslima Begum upon their return last week.
At a time when on-the-ground reporting from Gaza is becoming increasingly deadly and difficult, the accounts of these doctors act as a respected messenger reminding decision-makers in graphic detail, if they needed it, of the devastation of war.
Doctors like Dr Ahlia Kattan and her husband Dr Sameer Khan arrived from their home in California last month for a three-week stint at a hospital outside Rafah
At least 340 healthcare workers have been killed in Gaza since the conflict started last October, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. It’s a tragedy repeated around the world, with hundreds more doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers killed in Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and other conflicts last year.
Returning home provided a welcome relief from the sounds of airstrikes and gunfire and sleeping on the hospital floor, “but my thoughts immediately went to those I left behind,” Omar El-Taji, a urologist who usually works in Manchester, told Begum.
“We can’t look away. In the face of such immense suffering, we all have a duty to act.”
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