The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said that he had never seen “such shocking atrocities,” commenting on the displacement of civilians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

This came in a post by the UN rapporteur on the “X” platform, today, Sunday, about the forced displacement of Palestinians in Rafah at the hands of Israel.

“In more than 30 years of research and dealing with communities experiencing displacement, I have never seen atrocities as shocking as these,” Rajagopal said.

The UN rapporteur pointed out that generations of Palestinians have been forced to flee several times.

On Monday, Israel announced the start of a military operation in Rafah, which it claimed was “limited in scope.” Despite mounting international warnings about expanding military operations in Rafah, the Israeli army called, on Saturday morning, for the immediate displacement of residents of neighborhoods in the heart of the city, thus expanding its operations. Which started Monday, east of the city.

On Saturday, the Hamas movement warned of the repercussions of the Israeli army’s control of the Rafah crossing and its closure for the fifth day, which “portends a humanitarian catastrophe and an exacerbation of the state of famine throughout the besieged Gaza Strip.”

The devastating war on the Gaza Strip caused tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, the majority of whom were children and women, and left behind widespread devastation, health and environmental disasters, and humanitarian crises, which necessitated the trial of Tel Aviv before the International Court of Justice on the grounds of “genocide.”