🔥EGYPT-ISRAEL PEACE TREATY BROKEN🔥Israel says it has taken control over a strategic zone along the border between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. This corridor is enshrined in the historic peace treaty between Egypt and Israel as being under Egyptian control.… pic.twitter.com/qVAFHGmuEN
— Online Shogun (@online_shogun) May 29, 2024
This is news because it happened.
But it’s also sort of not news, because everyone knew it was getting ready to happen.
What they are doing is locking people in Rafah so they can slaughter them.
Israeli forces have taken control of a buffer zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, the country’s military said on Wednesday, giving Israel effective authority over the Palestinian territory’s entire land border.
Israel also continued deadly raids on Rafah in southern Gaza despite an order from the International Court of Justice to end attacks on the city, where half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people had previously taken refuge.
In a televised briefing, 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 14 km-long (9 mile) corridor along the Gaza Strip’s only border with Egypt.
“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. Hamas is the armed Palestinian group that governs the blockaded territory.
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 the Gaza Strip’s only land border that Israel had not controlled directly.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah. They had moved into the heart of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday despite an order from the top United Nations court to immediately halt the assault on the city.
This breaks all obligations Egypt, and thereby the entire Arab world, has to get along with the Jews.
Not that the Gaza massacre itself didn’t do that, but by seizing this border, the Arabs now have an absolute legal right to invade and totally destroy the Zionist state.
They won’t do it.
But they now have total justification for doing it under international law.
🚨BREAKING: China’s envoy to the UN delivers a scathing rebuke to Israel for breaching the #ICJ order on #Rafah and for deliberately withholding humanitarian aid into #Gaza. #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/uAa69meKmY
— Dr Lens Veritatis (@LensVeritatis) May 29, 2024
.@ROK_Mission Amb Hwang: “#Israel claims that the killing of dozens of civilians last weekend in tents in a so called safe zone in western #Rafah was a tragic mistake. But when such instances are repeated again and again and the children and the aid workers keep being killed, it… pic.twitter.com/is67VxcuGJ
— Rami Ayari (@Raminho) May 29, 2024
Israel’s military offensive in Rafah has crippled the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Children are starving. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel is getting to people in desperate need.
The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in this humanitarian disaster.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) May 29, 2024
“Canada in no way supports the military operations by Israel in Rafah.”
These attacks are cruel and inhumane.
Palestinian civilians deserve safe and secure access to humanitarian aid – we need a ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/hYpkFdXmck
— Randy Boissonnault 🏳️🌈 (@R_Boissonnault) May 29, 2024