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I think the consequences of a ground operation in Rafa in the current circumstances will be catastrophic

for the people of Gaza, for the Palestinians. It would be catastrophic for the humanitarian situation.

It would be catastrophic all around.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack Raffa,

where over 1.4 million Palestinians are seeking refuge. We'll go to Raffa to speak with

Mohammed Abulabda, a poet and translator who used to translate Edgar Allan Poe,

now translates for the International Medical Corps.

Then we remember U.S. peace activist Rachel K Rachel Corey killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Raffa as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian pharmacist.

The bulldozer proceeded toward Rachel that she took a position indicating that she was not going to move.

She was in her orange jacket.

She she when it kept coming she rose on the mound and

the eyewitnesses testified that her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen.

But the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her.

We'll speak with Rachel Corrie's... Those are continued and proceeded over her.

We'll speak with Rachel Corey's parents who've devoted their lives to her cause and to one of

her colleagues with the international solidarity movement who witnessed her killing and held her hand as she lay dying.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

The Israeli military has conducted another major raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

There are reports Israeli snipers are firing at people inside the hospital which has also been

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