Israel plans to stockpile tents to accommodate nearly half a million people ahead of its assault on Rafah.
This attack is its last bastion Hamas at Gaza Stripa government source told AFP today.
The announcement of the public tender, published on the website of the Ministry of Defense, concerns the purchase of 40,000 tents with 12 seats each, i.e. 480,000 seats.
“I can confirm that a tender has been opened for the Gaza Strip,” said the source, who asked not to be named, without specifying where the tents would be set up.
The Israeli military estimates that Hamas maintains four battalions in Rafah, a city on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip near the closed border with Egypt, where nearly 1.5 million Gazans have taken refuge to escape Israeli bombardment and fighting that are furious following the Islamist Palestinian movement’s unprecedented attack on October 7 in Israel.
Despite opposition from the United States, which fears high civilian casualties, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares himself determined to launch the attack once morest Rafa. Yesterday, Monday, he even announced that a date has been set, without revealing what it is.
Today I received a detailed report on the talks in Cairo, we are working all the time to achieve our goals, primarily the release of all our hostages and achieving a complete victory over Hamas.
This victory requires entry into Rafah and the elimination of the terrorist battalions there. It will happen – there is a date. pic.twitter.com/KOhStmGSGp
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) April 8, 2024
“This will happen – there is a date,” he said in a video message, six months following the war began.
According to protothema, Israeli officials reiterated that such an attack was planned following the announcement on Sunday of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the city of Khan Younis, the largest in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the focus of fighting between the army and Hamas , which has ruled Gaza since 2007.
Since then, thousands of Palestinians who had fled have returned to Khan Younis, AFP found, but most of them found their homes in ruins or uninhabitable, leaving them on the streets.
The United States favors targeted operations in Rafah and expresses fears regarding whether it is possible to remove so many residents before an attack.
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