from Press TV
A senior member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned Israel’s plan to launch a ground invasion against the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah as a criminal move.
Osama Hamdan, who represents Hamas in Lebanon, made the remarks in a Monday press conference in Beirut, saying, “We consider the invasion of Rafah, which is crowded with displaced people, a criminal move.”
He added that the attack on Rafah has been planned by Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to serve his own personal interests and prevent the cessation of the regime’s aggression against the coastal territory.
Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military on Friday to prepare to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of a planned ground operation against the city. Aid organizations, however, say such a move will be nearly impossible, given the scale of devastation elsewhere in Gaza and the huge number of people trapped in the besieged area.
Israel’s planned aggression comes as more than 1.4 million people, about five times Rafah's usual population, have fled to the city amid the regime’s genocide across Gaza, which has killed upwards of 28,300 Palestinians since its commencement on October 7, 2023...
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