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‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians

Tents as far as the eye can see in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, January 9, 2024. (Mohammed Zaanoun)

Israel claims to have dropped millions of leaflets and made millions of phone calls telling people to evacuate. It’s not to warn but to panic and put the fear of god into people herded and trapped like fish in a barrel. There are no phone lines, a rarely functioning internet and when technicians try to repair it they are shot. So who are the Israelis ringing?

The leaflets aren’t a humanitarian warning they are intended to panic Palestinians and to keep them moving. Cruelty is when your oppressors regard you as animals. There is only one side to this war.

Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza’s southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets.

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