Rafah
Title: No Safe Space (Rafah)
Subject: Gaza, Rafah, Palestine, and Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Created: 2024
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 48″x36″
Article
“”This in itself will cause a disaster, as this will lead to high prices and lead to famine,” she said.
Witnesses described frightened families leaving Rafah on foot, riding donkeys, pushing trolleys or packed with their belongings into overloaded trucks hours after reading leaflets dropped by the IDF that told residents and displaced people in eastern neighbourhoods to leave.
The IDF said they had broadcast instructions through “announcements, text messages, phone calls and media broadcasts in Arabic” telling residents to head to an “expanded humanitarian zone” on the coast and around the city of Khan Younis.
Aid agencies said they believe around 200 families every hour had left eastern Rafah on Monday, with similar numbers moving on Tuesday.
“We are monitoring displacement going northwards but a major concern is that we don’t have tents. So we are tracking them but … we are running out of ways to help,” Petropoulos said.
Others said they had decided to stay, whatever the risks.
Jihad Ahmed, 62, a retired police officer in Rafah, said nowhere in Gaza was safe for his family of nine.
“I am very worried as there is no safe place to escape to. I evacuated my family to the centre of Rafah but despite the warnings my son and I stayed at our home for fear that it would be looted.”
While some non-fuel supplies have entered Gaza via the northern Erez crossing in recent days, the UN agencies said this was insufficient and difficult to deliver to Rafah since it meant crossing active combat zones.
Intense clashes around the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and near Gaza City have prevented movement of aid convoys in recent days.”
– The Guardian, ‘No safe place’: people in Rafah describe terror as Israeli assault begins
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