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‘Gaza Destruction Defies Belief’

CrossFireArabia
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November 7, 2024

This is what Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council wrote, Tuesday:

Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City. This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory. This is in no way “self-defence.”

https://twitter.com/NRC_Egeland/status/1854174486934765693

Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City.

This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory.

This is in no way “self-defence.” pic.twitter.com/N5oFBJSoMc
— Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) November 6, 2024

CrossFireArabia

Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.