Attacking Rafah in Ramadan will risk ‘explosion’ across Middle East, Jordan warns
AN ISRAELI assault on Rafah during Ramadan risks causing an “explosion” across the Middle East, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned today.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his cabinet this week to “approve the operational plans for action in Rafah,” which Israel says it will attack on the first day of Ramadan, March 10.
Over a million Palestinians are crowded into the town on the Egyptian border, driven there by Israel’s repeated instructions to flee south as its armies have advanced through Gaza. Even Tel Aviv’s closest ally the United States has warned an attack on Rafah would cause a humanitarian catastrophe.
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