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The new massacre in Rafah shows the length of depravity of the Israeli army when 45 people were killed when they were asleep and 249 burned alive.
The tent massacre that occurred in Rafah, Sunday, is being called as the “crime of crimes” by ex-UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness.
This is yet another horrifying massacre which Israeli warplanes carried out on displaced civilians mostly women, children and the old who were fast sleep. Eight American-made 2000-pound bombs reigned down on them jolting into shock while sending many to their graves.
The result was massive explosions in the tent camp that led to extensive fires, the burning of tents and the churred bodies that ensured. The sum total of deaths where 45 and 249 injured with extensive burns.
The massive attack on a makeshift displacement center run by UNRWA was in Tal Al Sultan which the Israelis previously designated as safe area but in Gaza nowhere is safe.
It was a horrible sight. The area was totally devastated with the smell of burning human flesh flowing as survivors went from one tent to another searching for their relatives and whimpering at the ones they lost.
There were more ugliness. One report spoke of a child’s head and legs decapitated and were entire families were wiped out. This is a really massacre under a horrified world.
“Her head was cut off. I can’t recognize her,” one man mourns of one of his female relatives as he supplicates to God on the night of the massacre.
Tents were melting and the people’s bodies were also melting…” one eyewitness who arrived at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah said.
The scene was out of a book of horror stories. French president Emmanuel Macron was outraged at the new massacre. So was Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “barbaric” and that Turkey will do “everything possible to hold these barbarians and murders accountable.”
Spain, a country that just officially recognized an independent Palestinian state, and under its Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares expressed his horror at the Rafah tent massacre.
But he wasn’t the only one. Canada, a staunch Israeli ally, also expressed its abhorrence at the massacre. “We are horrified by the strikes that killed Palestinian civilians in Rafah,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly wrote on the social media platform X and as quoted by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Condemnation of the Israeli massacre has come from all over the world. The Europeans are particularly angry as lead by EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell who expressed his dismay at the strikes on the Tel Al Sultan tent camp while writing on his X account
“Horrified by news coming out of Rafah on Israeli strikes killing dozens od displaced persons including small children. I condemn this in the strongest terms. There is no safe place in Gaza. These attacks must stop immediately.”
President of the European Council Charles Michel also said it was horrendous to see innocent civilians killed on the Israel attack on the tent camp of displaced persons in Rafah and called on the Israeli government to fully respect the International Court of Justice and to stop its military offensive on Rafah.
In a bid to contain the international heat on him Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later called the Rafah massacre as a “tragic mishap”. He told the Knesset the Israei army was looking for Hamas fighters and that “despite our efforts not to hurt them [civilians] there was a tragic mishap. We are investigatinh the incident.”
Such language speaks of sheer hipocracy because the daily civilian death toll now stands at over 36,000 people with 81,000 injured, since Israel started the war on the Gaza Strip after 7 October, 2023.
This is besides the fact Netabyhu insists on sending the troops in Rafah despite the fact that there has been over 100 attacks on this small city just in the past two weeks.
One finally commented “Israel’s bloodbath on Rafah…marks a new nadir in its savagery against Palestinians.” He says everyday a new threshold of savagery is crossed, just when we think we can’t see anything more heinous but Israel keeps going to greater depth.
