Nowhere Left to Go in Gaza as Israel’s Ground Assault on Rafah Looms
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for a ground invasion of Rafah, where at least 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering; the vast majority are refugees who have fled their homes. Israel’s most recent bombardments on Rafah have killed at least 14 people in a set of strikes on Thursday and upward of 100 on Monday. This week on Intercepted, guest host Sharif Abdel Kouddous — a contributing writer for The Intercept — and Tareq Baconi discuss Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, the history of Palestine, and prospects for the future. Baconi is the president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group on Israel/Palestine, and author of “Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance.”
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| 0:00.0 | The This is intercepted. I'm Shirifab Aqrif-A-Qudus, a contributing writer for The Intercept hosting Intercepted |
| 0:38.0 | this week. |
| 0:40.4 | All eyes are in Rafah, the southernmost city of Gaza. |
| 0:44.0 | It's now being bombed daily, |
| 0:46.0 | and fears are growing that Israel will soon launch a ground invasion. |
| 0:50.0 | Since Israel's assault on Gaza began over four months ago, they have steadily pushed Palestinians |
| 0:56.1 | further and further south towards the Egyptian border. |
| 0:59.5 | Amid one of the most punishing bombing campaigns in modern history, Israeli troops first entered the northern |
| 1:05.8 | section of Gaza and encircled Gaza City. After a week-long truce in November, troops moved further south, taking Hanunis in other areas. |
| 1:16.8 | Now, over half of Gaza's population, some 1.4 million people, are crammed into Rafah with nowhere left to go. |
| 1:26.0 | Israel's military campaign has so far killed over 28,000 people, |
| 1:31.0 | with many thousands still missing and presumed dead under the rubble. |
| 1:35.1 | More than 12,000 of the dead are children. |
| 1:38.3 | Over 80% of the population has been displaced and are facing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. |
| 1:45.0 | The UN estimates that a quarter of the population is suffering catastrophic famine. |
| 1:49.7 | Gaza now has the highest percentage of people facing acute food insecurity ever recorded, and |
| 1:55.6 | the scale of the destruction has rendered most of the territory uninhabitable. |
| 2:01.0 | Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is |
| 2:05.0 | vowing to continue the assault and launch a full-scale attack on Rofah |
| 2:09.4 | insisting on what he calls a total victory over Hamas. |
| 2:14.0 | At the start of the war, I outlined three goals. |
| 2:18.0 | Destroy Hamas, free the hostages, and ensure that Gaza doesn't pose a threat to Israel anytime in the future. |
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