‘No safe place’: people in Rafah describe terror as Israeli assault begins

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‘No safe place’: people in Rafah describe terror as Israeli assault begins
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"There has been widespread looting of existing stocks in Rafah after aid agencies were forced to leave warehouses unguarded following warnings to evacuate the area from Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)" This is a ridiculous oversight, the IDF should be working with aid agencies to guard evacuated warehouses and create new humanitarian corridors to facilitate aid delivery.

Edit: Oversight was definitely the wrong word to use. I thought this evacuation was limited to a small part of East Rafah and only affected a few warehouses. It's actually all of East Rafah and covers both border crossings and the majority of warehouses if I had to guess. Not working with aid agencies ahead of time is clearly done maliciously.

IDF should be working with aid agencies to guard evacuated warehouses and create new humanitarian corridors to facilitate aid delivery.

That would lead to fewer innocent civilians starving to death, can't have that!

They're not limiting aid by accident or neglect. Amongst the many war crimes that they are committing on a daily basis is using starvation and deprival of other crucial resources as a weapon.

This is a ridiculous oversight, the IDF should be working with aid agencies to guard evacuated warehouses and create new humanitarian corridors to facilitate aid delivery.

It's not an "oversight".

Doing that would be counterproductive to their goal of complete ethnic cleansing.