Israeli strikes kill 44 Palestinians in Rafah after Netanyahu says ground invasion is coming there

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Israeli strikes kill 44 Palestinians in Rafah after Netanyahu says ground invasion is coming there
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including more than a dozen children

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At this point they're acting like a genocidal rogue state and not like allies of the West. They should receive no further support whatsoever.

"This point" being since 1967 at the latest and especially in recent months.

To be entirely fair, it's never been quite this naked. Except maybe in 48-49.

"Go south it's really safe there, there's no Hamas south."

"Oh man look Hamas built a fleet of human shields in the south, that must be where the Hamas base is!"

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said any Israeli ground offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous consequences,” and asserted that Israel aims to eventually force the Palestinians out of their land.

Israel has carried out airstrikes in Rafah almost daily, even after telling civilians in recent weeks to seek shelter there from the current ground combat in Khan Younis just to the north.

In Khan Younis, Israeli forces opened fire at Nasser Hospital, the area’s largest, killing at least two people and wounding five, according to the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Saturday that the bodies of 117 people killed in Israeli airstrikes were brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll from the offensive to 28,064, mostly women and children.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned that an Israeli offensive on Rafah would be a “humanitarian catastrophe in the making,” adding on X that “the people in Gaza cannot disappear into thin air.”

In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, two medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent were found dead in a destroyed ambulance after going missing 12 days ago.


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