La haine sioniste à Rafah – Le Jeune Indépendant

Flames to illuminate an incredible crime perpetrated with hatred by the Zionist army in Gaza. Screams tearing through the darkness. Burned and torn corpses extracted from a pile of rubble, mostly those of women and of children. Videos posted on social networks on Sunday evening by residents of Rafah show scenes of fear.

The Zionist occupying forces, who have continued their genocidal enterprise with American complicity for nearly eight months, bombed the “Al khayam” camp, sheltering displaced Palestinians in the border town of Rafah, to the south of the enclave. The horrific massacre cost the lives of more than 40 Palestinians, most of them children, further revealing the extent of the madness of the Zionist leaders with the unfailing support of the administration of President Joe Biden, hostage to a pro-lobby. Israeli criminal.

More than 40 civilians were killed and others injured when at least eight missiles fired by Zionist occupying forces hit tents housing refugees in a newly established displacement camp near the Warehouses of the Relief and of works for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the northwest of Rafah. The bombing caused fires in tents and tragically burned dozens of people.

The massacre came just two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to end its military operations in Rafah and allow humanitarian aid to pass through to Gaza.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, yesterday condemned this new massacre perpetrated by the Zionist entity, while emphasizing that this umpteenth aggression constitutes “a blatant challenge to international law and order”.

The UN Special Rapporteur insisted on the fact that “the genocide in Gaza cannot end without external pressure”, noting that the Zionist entity “should be sanctioned and held accountable for its actions before the courts” .

She also stressed that the Zionist entity would face “the suspension of agreements, trade, partnership and investments, as well as its participation in international forums.”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees calls Israeli attacks on families seeking refuge in Rafah “horrible.”

In a post on the X platform, UNRWA claimed that the horrific images of the Israeli Rafah massacre are proof that Gaza is “hell on earth.”

The agency stressed that “last night’s photos are further proof” of the cruelty of the Zionists. ”There is no safe place, and no one is safe” in Gaza.

Strong international reactions

The massacre at the Rafah refugee camp was widely condemned by the foreign ministers of Spain, Ireland and Norway. The three countries, which recognized the Palestinian state last week, stressed the urgency of a permanent ceasefire and a two-state solution.

Addressing a joint news conference in the Belgian capital Brussels, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide stressed the “binding” nature of the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel to end its offensive in Rafah.

He stressed that the continuation of the aggression in Rafah constitutes “a violation of international law”, stressing the need to respect the “mandatory” measures of the ICJ.

“So this is a serious problem for all of us, because the impression created is that these standards don’t apply to everyone, and many will say they don’t apply to anyone. So I think it’s also defending the principles that we have accepted in the world. Remember that the International Court of Justice is everyone’s court. »

According to the Norwegian minister, the discussions that led to this decision included “a meeting between donors to the Palestinian Authority and the new Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa”, who worked to improve “service delivery and governance “.

Eide also said they chaired a meeting with Prince Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, during which they discussed a “regional peace plan” that includes “normalization between the Saudi Arabia and other Arab States.”

“This is the context in which Spain, Ireland and Norway have chosen to recognize. We encourage other countries to do the same. We know that a number of European countries are about to do this or are considering doing so, and we hope that they will follow suit,” he concluded.

For his part, Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin condemned the Rafah attack, describing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as “barbaric” and calling on Israel to immediately cease its military operations.

“May I say that, first of all, again, this was all predicted. Every UN agency and humanitarian group I met predicted that any military operation in Rafah would have disastrous consequences for the people of Gaza. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. »

He called for a significant increase in “humanitarian aid to Gaza”, reinforcing the importance of “multilateralism” and the “independence” of international legal institutions.

“We are therefore in no way going to distract from the main objective of our decision to recognize the State of Palestine,” Martin concluded.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares also echoed these sentiments, criticizing the lack of “diplomatic courtesy” that Israel has shown in its recent actions against European diplomats.

He reaffirmed the need for an immediate “ceasefire” and stressed the importance of respecting “international law”.

“Yesterday’s bombing is yet another day in which innocent Palestinian civilians are being killed. This underlines what all three of us, our three countries, have been calling for for a long time, which is that this is an immediate ceasefire. But the seriousness is even greater because it follows a decision taken by the International Court of Justice which, once again, I would like to point out, is binding and obligatory for all parties.

Albares also announced his intention to rally support from other EU countries to back the ICJ ruling and take steps to enforce it if Israel continues to ignore the Court’s decision.

“Our goal is to recognize the State of Palestine tomorrow, to deploy all possible efforts to achieve a permanent ceasefire as quickly as possible and, ultimately, to achieve this definitive peace,” he said. concluded.

Since May 6, the Zionist entity began a ground offensive against Rafah and seized on the Palestinian side the crossing point separating this city in the south of the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

The offensive of the Zionist occupier caused the closure of the border crossing, prohibiting the passage of the wounded to receive care and the entry of humanitarian aid.

The Zionist attack also forced at least 810,000 Palestinians to leave Rafah, which hosts around 1.5 million people, including around 1.4 million displaced people from other areas of the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, Amnesty International yesterday asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “open an investigation for war crimes” following the assassination of 44 Palestinians, including 32 children, by strikes by the Zionist entity in the central and southern Gaza Strip last April.

Amnesty demands investigation

According to’NGO A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit association of public interest, which does not come under the control of the State or international institutions., these strikes took place on April 16 on the al Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and on April 19 and 20 in Rafah, in the south. “These devastating strikes decimated families and took the lives of 32 children,” said Amnesty official Erika Guevara-Rosas in the press release, affirming that the NGO’s investigation provides “essential evidence pointing to attacks attributable to the Zionist army.

According to Amnesty, the April 16 strike in al Maghazi hit a street where children were playing table football, killing 10 of them aged 4 to 15 and five men. In Rafah, an aerial bomb hit the house of Abu Radwan, a retired civil servant, on April 19, killing nine family members, including six children, according to Amnesty.

On April 20, a Zionist weapon strike destroyed the Abdelal family home in eastern Rafah, killing 20 people – 16 children and four women – and injuring two other children.

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) must open an investigation for war crimes” into these three strikes, writes Amnesty.

Despite international pressure on the Zionist entity, the occupying army continues to kill Palestinian civilians and destroy infrastructure and residential neighborhoods. On Monday, dozens of Palestinians were martyred and others injured in bombings against northern Gaza City and the Bureij and Jabaliya camps, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

On the 234th day of the Zionist aggression, the occupation artillery targeted the Al-Falouga area in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, while another bombardment targeted the districts of Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra, south of the city of Ghaza, underlines Wafa, citing local sources.

The death toll from the barbaric aggression against the Gaza Strip rose yesterday to 36,050 martyrs and 81,026 wounded since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7.