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submitted 7 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Israeli leaders have framed an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah as an imperative to achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas. But it’s a strategy that is fraught with complexity and is generating criticism over the potentially catastrophic impact such an operation would have on the more than 1 million Gazans sheltering there.

The planning will likely take Israel’s military some time, Israeli officials and analysts said on Sunday. A major challenge for Israeli forces will be how to move civilians who have crowded into the city out of harm’s way. Many Gazans fled to Rafah on the instructions of the Israeli military to avoid the fighting farther north in Gaza, and a chorus of international leaders have expressed concerns that the people there have nowhere to go.

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[-] CrazyFrog97@discuss.online 11 points 7 months ago

Netanyahu brandishes map of Israel that includes West Bank and Gaza at UN speech

It's no secret that Bibi plans to annex the entire region nor is there any sign they genuinely trying to avoid the loss of Palestinian lives, so why would we believe the only thing stopping them from attacking imminently is 'how to move civilians who have crowded into the city out of harm’s way'?

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