Palestinian FM: Humanitarian Catastrophe in Rafah Tests Remaining Credibility of Security Council

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates confirmed that the humanitarian catastrophe that is currently being summarized and embodied in the city of Rafah, in light of the calls for aid and assistance launched by the Municipality of Rafah and its Emergency Committee, is testing the remaining credibility of the international community, the Security Council, and all relevant international institutions, if they have any ears or will left to act. An immediate ceasefire and the protection of Palestinian civilians.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued today, Friday, that “for the 91st day in a row, the Israeli government continues to deepen the war of genocide, comprehensive destruction, and displacement in the Gaza Strip, and every hour and every crime of bombing and shooting leaves more martyrs, wounded, and destroyed, including all institutions.” Which provides humanitarian services to citizens.

The occupation forces impose on them two options, not a third: either death by bombing, starvation, thirst, and deprivation of treatments and medicines, especially in the winter, or further confinement and continuous displacement on the road to forced displacement, in a continuous spiral of displacement that began from the north of the Gaza Strip towards its center, and then the displacement from The center of the Gaza Strip to its south, and the displacement, as is currently happening from the southern regions towards the city of Rafah, which has become the highest population density in the world ever, under inhumane, catastrophic, unsafe conditions and without shelter, including women, children, the sick and the elderly, which means that the deepening of displacement is the face. The other is for the coin of death and killing itself

It pointed to the escalation in collective punishments against Palestinian citizens, especially in Jerusalem, depriving them of prayer in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, as has been the case since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, and the continued dismemberment of the occupied West Bank, erecting more iron gates, limiting the movement of Palestinian citizens, and preventing them from reaching their lands. In preparation for its seizure and allocation for the benefit of colonialism.