The Guardian newspaper published an editorial about the entry of Israeli forces into Rafah, warning that an attack on it would exacerbate the disaster. The newspaper pointed to a scene of hope and despair, as men, women and children danced in the streets of Rafah on Monday after Hamas accepted the ceasefire deal.

There was nothing to celebrate. Hours later, Israel ordered 100,000 residents of Rafah to leave, and protesters took to the streets of Israel, warning that the government was endangering the lives of prisoners. After a short period, Israeli forces took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, and stopped all relief supplies to the Gaza Strip. Hopes for reaching an agreement rose and then faded more than once. There are several accounts about what exactly Hamas agreed to, including the timing of the release of prisoners, even if the exchange included the dead and the living. But the continuation of fighting does not cancel negotiations to stop the conflict. However, the end of the war means the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While opinion polls show that most Israelis prefer a deal to free the prisoners over entering Rafah, the extremist wing on which Netanyahu's political future depends sees the opposite.

The Biden administration is seeking to stop a conflict that threatens to have regional repercussions and cost it local losses among American voters. A week ago, the administration told Hamas that Israel had made it a very generous offer. It now says that Israel did not handle the negotiations in good faith. Whether Washington did more than rebuke Israel is unclear, although reports spoke of suspending a military shipment, and Biden in the past described entering Rafah as a red line, but he immediately retracted what he said. She referred to the State Department's upcoming report to Congress on Israel's compliance with American and international law in Gaza. Although its critics made clear from the beginning that they did not believe any reports about Israel's compliance with the law. “Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows this is not true,” Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said last week.

The newspaper confirmed that pressure is increasing on the British government due to the absence of repercussions due to Israel's actions in Rafah. Netanyahu may have found controlling the Rafah crossing and air strikes sufficient to satisfy his extremist allies, but the results of these actions are harmful enough, as humanitarian support is still insufficient and famine has taken hold in the Strip. At a time when there was an urgent need to know what was happening in Gaza, the Israeli authorities shamelessly shut down Al Jazeera in Israel, describing the news channel as a threat to national security. The newspaper believes that the operation should not escalate, because it will increase the disaster, and most of those who came to Rafah were forced to flee from other areas in Gaza. Issuing evacuation orders is also meaningless given the lack of safe places to take refuge. UNICEF says there are 60,000 children in the city. According to the Ministry of Health, more than 14,000 children have been killed since the beginning of the war, in addition to 6,000 mothers, and there are 19,000 new orphans. Whatever the discussions and changes, the main demand has not changed: achieving a ceasefire, restoring and increasing humanitarian support, and releasing prisoners, and the price of failure increases every day.

Source: Sama News