The United Nations (UN) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) have called out Israel for the Zionist State’s failure to de-escalate its war on Gaza as well as its offensive in Rafah where millions of Palentinians have sought refuge.
UN leader Antonio Guterres said that Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are crowded together in tent cities, was “the core of the humanitarian aid operation” in the Palestinian territory.
“An all-out Israeli offensive on the city would not only be terrifying for more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there; it would put the final nail in the coffin of our aid programmes,” Guterres said.
Guterres’s comments come after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated that his country was intent on a ground invasion in Rafah, in its bid for “total victory” over Hamas.
Israel is due to report to the ICJ on
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