The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Gaza’s lone border crossing with Egypt had been completely destroyed by its operations in the area. In recent days, the IDF has targeted the few undestroyed areas left in the Strip.
On Wednesday, Israeli Army Radio reported that the Rafah crossing was now unusable. “This is how Rafah crossing looks today, completely destroyed and no longer usable, after being taken over by Brigade 401 in one night,” the radio station stated. “Due to its relative proximity to the border, the Israeli army used the crossing as a stopping point and resting area.”
The Gazan media ministry reported the destruction on Monday, stating that “Occupation forces damaged Rafah crossing’s halls that were used by locals to exit the Strip.” Images reviewed by the Middle East Eye reportedly showed the exterior of the structure was incinerated.
Israel began its operations in Rafah on May 7. Prior to the assault, the crossing served as the main lifeline for more than one million displaced civilians who were sheltering in the city. Over the past six weeks, aid shipments into the Strip have plummeted by two-thirds, triggering fears of full-blown famine.
Tel Aviv places the blame for the increasing starvation on the Palestinians. However, aid agencies point to the Israeli military operations throughout Gaza as creating unsafe and unstable conditions that make aid deliveries impossible.
In recent days, the IDF has stepped up operations in south and central Gaza. The bombing in southeastern Rafah and Deir al-Balah has destroyed some of the only areas in the Strip that have not seen intense fighting over the past eight months.
The Israeli military radio station explained that its operations in Rafah are aimed at establishing lasting control over the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. “The Israeli army has already started thinking about the long-term control of the Philadelphi Corridor,” the station explained.
The assault on Rafah has led to the displacement of over one million people. Oxfam reports that many of the refugees have been driven into tent camps facing severe deprivation and shortages of essential goods. In a statement, the aid agency said, “Living conditions are so appalling that in Al-Mawasi, there are just 121 latrines for over 500,000 people.”
Before Israel invaded Rafah, President Joe Biden claimed to have imposed a red line on Tel Aviv, insisting it must have a plan for the civilians before attacking the city. Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa Director, said that the criteria have not been met.
“Israel claimed weeks ago that it would provide full humanitarian support and medical assistance to civilians it had told to move,” she added. “Not only is this not happening, its ongoing impunity, bombardment, and deliberate obstruction have created unprecedented and impossibly dangerous conditions for humanitarian agencies to operate.”
Still, the White House has refused to take any meaningful action against Tel Aviv and has continued most military aid in support of the Israeli onslaught. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs is under review but stressed that “everything else is moving as it normally would move.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
There are builders in this world and there are destroyers in this world.
Which one is Israel?
Builders of Destroyers of the World. Voltaire RIP.
Don't forget the USA, ever since the Kennedy assassination the USA bombed a trail of ashes and destruction around the globe. They build military bases and nothing else, the neocons used military power, and threats, and extortions, and sanctions and confiscating national $$$ accounts, against any nation opposing the USA. Biden took the velvet glove off using the iron fist and made enemies, treating friends and foes alike.
Just; Kennedy was perfectly willing to drop his share of bombs as well. He was in office during the Bay of Pigs invasion (so he owned it, no matter how much his shill historians have tried to excuse him), during the initial deployments and escalations in Viet Nam, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where, if war had broken out it would have been overwhelmingly his fault. Kennedy's greatest single accomplishment was getting himself assassinated; it turned him into an American God, instead of what he should be known as; another amoral, dishonest, corrupt politician of great personal charm and very marginal ability.
Kennedy was young and growing in office, now we have octogenarians who learned nothing over decades in government . Kennedy solved the Cuban missile crisis diplomatically and Vietnam was in progress when he became president, so was Cuba. Credit were credit is due. He had potentials to be more than just a mediocre president. Look what we have now and what we had before him. Not even mediocre statesmen.
Kennedy had excellent coherent and eloquent speeches and could hold a press conference, when was the last time we heard a coherent speech and a rational press conference? Trump and Biden are two zeros’.
Agree about Trump and Biden; and that Kennedy was a good speaker. But he ran, on a so-called “missile gap”, claiming Eisenhower had allowed the USSR to gain strategic advantage over us, which was nonsense, and he almost certainly knew that. He was a True Believer in the Power of Counterinsurgency, forming the Green Berets. Yes he “solved” the Cuban missile crisis, but since he also created it (by threatening war, and blockading an independent country we were not at war with) by refusing to allow Russia the right to do the same things to us we were doing to them (nuclear weapons around the periphery of the USSR). So, not a fan.
The Americans had nuclear missiles in Turkey and the Russians were to station missiles in Cuba, Kennedy and Khrushchev settled it diplomatically, both removed the nuclear weapons. For political reasons the removal of American missiles from Turkey was done quietly. But it was a diplomatic success for both nations. Kennedy did consider the legitimate needs of the Russians. Our insane ruling elite is not capable of doing that, they are Russophobes. Why do we sanction Cuba, what justifies the sanctions? Obama reduced sanctions and Trump reversed it and Biden kept the Trump sanctions in place.
Why do we sanction Venezuela? The people elected Maduro and he is not our boy. The insane USA elite is a global disaster waiting to happen.
In return, Kennedy removed the missiles from Turkey, it was a quiet diplomatic give and take.
Agreed; but the dispute never should have happened in the first place. And, seldom mentioned, but the US blockade of Cuba was stupid, illegal, and an act of war; and should have been condemned by the UN.
I am old enough to remember the Cold War period. Our elite still lives back in that time. McCarthy has returned.
As am I. Kennedy and Nixon (uggh, but credit where credit is due) were imperfect man, but far, far superior than what we’ve had since.
The dispute happened and they handled it well, we have no statesmen like that left in government when we really need people like that.
"Still, the White House has refused to take any meaningful action against Tel Aviv…"
No shit.
Biden needs to appear before the IJC & ICC TO EXPLAIN HOW DESTROYING AN EXIT POINT TO ESCAPE THE GENOCIDR FOR THE WOMEN & kidsIS is NOT a WAR CRIME DURING A GENOCIDE….!!!!!!
Did Biden order the destruction? No he did not. And BTW, Egypt was not allowing people from Gaza to cross inti Egypt in any significant numbers.
As the occupying power its the Likud’s responsibility to house, feed and protect the Palestinians….inside Israel.
Nor Should They. To do so would be to grant the Israelis' wish; to be able to force the Palestinians out of their homes, into a foreign desert, from which they will never be allowed to return. Regardless of legal ownership, Israel will claim the land as "abandoned" and populate it with their imported parasites (errr…"citizens") who have no right to the property. This has been done over and over and over and over again by the zionists. Why would Egypt be a party to this? The responsibility to protect civilian life lies with the occupying power, and that is Israel. The land properly belongs to the Palestinians,
Biden is demented, he does not know what he is doing, destruction is normal policy for Government in DC. That is all he knows.
He’s corrupt. They’d put him in prison if he tried to stop the destruction in Gaza.
You keep repeating a lie after a lie. People in Gaza can get out to get the crossing. Israeli force is preventing people and everything else from getting to the crossing to get out and not allowing anything or anyone to get through from the Egyptian side.
“The Rafah border crossing critical to aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt cannot operate again unless Israel relinquishes control and hands it back to Palestinians on the Gaza side, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/rafah-border-crossing-cant-reopen-unless-israeli-forces-quit-gaza-side-egypt-2024-06-03/
Biden agreed by his silence to the destruction of the border crossing and did not nothing about.
So, the representative of the most powerful and ruthless force on earth (ie Zionism) has agreed to appear before a toothless group to defend its actions….. And pink pigs are seen flying around everywhere
Biden is demented, he is not able to testify or be held responsible for anything. He is off the hook. He would insist that Putin did it.
BB is a big time sadist, clearly enjoys making the Gazans suffer, … as well making the White House take his shit and pronounce it "just right".
Netanyahu is not the illness, he's just a symptom of a very sick society. If elections were held today the guy who would win has been berating the IDF for not using ENOUGH force.
Yes, but, the proof of a real sicko is when he acts against his interests. Begin, Shamir, Sharon, Gantz, their butchery was in accord with Eretz Israel policy. Humiliating the White House is directly counterproductive.
He wants to humiliate Biden with the hope that it helps usher in Trump. From whom he expects even more
That’s a point to be considered. Just what and how much is Miriam demanding in return?
There is no problem for the Israelis to get their Trump. The Zionists are in charge in DC regardless who wins the election.
Normally it would be, but Biden is demented and does not count, but Trump served well during his first time in office, he will not disappoint, they can be sure of that. And a possible VP like Nikki and Trump and Hillary and Biden, two ruthless women. Can it get worse?
It was not by accident. It was totally deliberate and calculated.
Before Israel invaded Rafah, President Joe Biden claimed to have imposed a red line on Tel Aviv, insisting it must have a plan for the civilians before attacking the city.
The assault on Rafah has led to the displacement of over one million people. “Living conditions are so appalling that in Al-Mawasi, there are just 121 latrines for over 500,000 people.”
And Israel DID have a plan.
They are experts at making war by way of deception. Don't believe a word they say.
Agreed. But most importantly, I would like to add the word: obviously.
Irony?… 😉
Their plan was & is Genocide. A more radical form of segregation. Kill al those who they don't want or seem to be able to co-exist with peacefully in the Holy Land of three great religions of which they decided they need to genocide two of them, The Chrisrians & The Muslem.. !!!!! Our mostly Zionist oned and controlled never seems to do thr numbers of Chtistians getting slaoughtered by top dollar recipant of your's & mine, billions of tax Dollars to fund their land theft & genocide plans
Israel's plan was to cross the red line and destroy Rafah. I watched a You Tube Video about pro Palestinian and pro Israeli protesters arguing with each other.
The pro Israeli demonstrators bragged about destroying Gaza and one of them said he'd buy beach property in Gaza. They said the pro Palestinian protesters were terrorists and Anti Semites and the Jews protesting Israel's siege on Gaza were "self hating Jews".
Egypt can easily make another crossing into Gaza within a few days or less…!
Yeah. How hard is it to make a land crossing?
They could. But why would they? Egypt does not want to be responsible for Gaza. They made that mistake in 1949. Thanks to the six day war, they escape that responsibility. Now if somebody complaints that Egypt is not doing enough, they can blame Israel.
And the israelis would destroy it again, they have lots of 2000 pound bombs left and more on the way, Biden is good for it.
Egypt can not do anything without Israeli approval. Egypt did not destroy the crossing, Israel did.
The only thing Egypt is concerned about is the US annual bribe that keeps Egypt playing nice with Israel. So yeah, there are $1.5 billion reasons for Egypt to play along.
Little if any of that loot makes it past the Egyptian ruling class and the Egyptian military. US foreign aid is overwhelmingly used to bribe the receiving countries' oligarchs and their political class. US corporations get favored treatment and US taxpayers get the bill. The wealth transfer is from poor and middle class Americans to the rich and privileged in other countries. Totally corrupt.
Did they rebuild the pier yet?
But they won't. It's not in their interest to do so. The last thing the Egyptian (US Puppet) government wants is an influx of refugees from Palestine, many with associations with HAMAS, a spinoff from the greater Muslim Brotherhood which, if fair elections were ever held in Egypt, would be the rulers of that sad country. Said refugees would place a burden on Egypt's weak economy they can't afford, but even if the US paid for everything (including the requisite bribes and other corruption needed to get the Palestinians settled) would only incite Egypt's own people to violence by telling their stories to a largely sympathetic, anti government populace.
ONE MORE GENOCIDAL ACT TO ADD TO THE LIST!!!!!! Did the Nazis destroy border crossings so Jews were imprisoned in their genocidal horror…??? Or is this an origional Zionist idea and not just one more idea looted from the Nazi archeives …..?????
They confined them to ghettos, like Israel does to the Palestinians, and prohibited them to travel internationally. So yes, they're operating from the same playbook.
Now one has to wonder about the holocaust horrors what is true and what has been made up for propaganda purposes. They lie the moment they open their mouth. I believed all of it, now I wonder.
So I as having this discussion with a group of Psychopaths and asked them if they would honor their agreement to prevent mass civilian deaths and they all enthusiastically agreed that they would. But now they have breached that agreement .
But they act like Sociopaths, they can't help it, they are very sick people.
Automated Apartheid
https://www.mintpressnews.c…
Ethnic cleansing by violent genocide is no way to make local friends..
Sad but very true.
Egypt allowed the crossing of all the weapons and tunnel construction material Qatar paid for to happen in the area of the Rafah gate. The Palestinians have yet to understand that Gaza in the future will be nothing more than a half starved tent city.
Sounds like the perfect breeding ground for revenge-seeking, battle-hardened "terrorists".
Our friend David Bend seems to delight in genocide and mass murder.
That must be sarcasm, no normal thinking person could possibly be that ignorant, right?
I know people can be evil, but I never knew how evil people can be.
Two so-called civilized nations with evil governments DC and Tel Aviv is unbelievable.
The criminality of the Netanyahu regime is limitless.
That genocidal ‘government’ is doing everything it can to cause famine among the civilian population of Gaza. It has become the shame of humanity.
Yemen Naval Forces claim another successful strike on the USS Eisenhower
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2137764
How many 2 000 pound bombs does it take to turn a tent- city into ashes?
fyi,
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/28609
🇮🇶🚀🏴☠️ Summary of the Yemeni Armed Forces Statement:
The Yemeni Armed Forces, in coordination with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, executed two joint military operations on June 22, 2024, targeting five ships in Haifa Port and the Mediterranean Sea.
The first operation hit four ships, including cement tankers and general cargo ships, while the second targeted the ship "Shorthorn Express" en route to Haifa.
Both operations successfully hit their targets.
This action is in support of the Palestinian people and a response to crimes against Gaza. The Yemeni Armed Forces will continue such operations until the aggression stops and the siege on Gaza is lifted.
"Before Israel invaded Rafah, President Joe Biden claimed to have imposed a red line on Tel Aviv, insisting it must have a plan for the civilians before attacking the city. ……"
There was a plan. Get rid of as many Palestinians as possible. Pretend Israel isn't doing just that.
What is Egypt doing about it.? The IDF took over the Philadelphia Corridor. That abrogates the Abraham Accords. Lighting up the Rafah Crossing adds more that nees to be addressed by Egypt. Have we bought off Egypt?