Sputnik International By Ian DeMartino
Early Monday morning in Gaza, Israel intensified its bombing campaign in the last remaining haven for Palestinians, Rafah, a small city on the border of Egypt where an estimated 1.4 million Gazans have been displaced.
Israel is likely to continue its actions in Gaza despite protests from the international community because it is “living in a parallel reality,” where it faces “no repercussions, the bombs keep being delivered, the guns keep being delivered, the aid keeps being [delivered],” journalist and editor of The Cradle Esteban Carrillo told Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Tuesday.
“[US Secretary of State] Antony Blinken can travel to Israel, ten, 12, 15 times and he is going to get the same response every time because everything you hear from the White House is completely toothless.”
Carrillo noted that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been pushing Gazas further and further south, into a smaller area, and now there is nowhere left to flee.
“Palestinians were initially told to evacuate the North and then Israel flattened the North and then evacuated Gaza City, which was in central Gaza. ‘Go to Khan Yunis’ [the IDF said]. Then what happened? The Israeli army goes into Khan Yunis […] and then when [the IDF] were going into Khan Yunis, they were telling [Gazans to] go to Rafah,” Carrillo recounted. “Rafah is literally the last place where the Palestinians could run to from the attacks, from the bombs […] This is now, without a doubt, the most densely populated area in the world. And the Israelis are dropping bombs.”
“The plan here is to ethnically cleanse Gaza[…] to push them into the Sinai desert, into Egypt and say, ‘Now they are their problem […] whoever cries for the Palestinians, they can take care of them,” he explained…
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