UN warns that Israeli offensive on Rafah would be an “unspeakable tragedy”

The head of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (THE TEA), Martin Griffithssaid this Tuesday that an Israeli ground offensive in the city of Rafain the south of Gaza stripHe would be “unspeakable tragedy”.

“The truth is that an operation in Rafa It will be nothing short of an unspeakable tragedy. No humanitarian plan can counter this“Griffiths said after the Iraqi Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahupromised to launch an offensive against this city, where around 1.5 million Palestinians take refuge.

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While Hamas considered a truce plan proposed in the negotiations Cairo With American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators, Netanyahu promised to attack Rafah.”with or without agreement”.

washington joined the call from several countries and humanitarian organizations to Israel he ruled out attacking the city for fear that it would provoke a massacre of civilians.

“For agencies struggling to deliver humanitarian aid despite hostilities, impassable roads, unexploded ordnance, fuel shortages, checkpoint delays and Israeli restrictions, a ground invasion would be a disastrous blow.Griffiths said.

“We are in a race to avoid hunger and death and we are losing“, he warned.

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The war in Link began after the Hamas attack October 7th in southern Israel, killing 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.

In retaliation, Israel launched an offensive that killed 34,535 people in Gaza stripmainly women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory controlled by Hamas.

Source: Elcomercio

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