The Zionist army prepares the assault on Rafah! - call from the Palestinian Youth of Italy

ORDER FOR THE EXPULSION OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN RAFAH

This morning the Zionist army ordered the evacuation of the eastern areas of Rafah, the last city in the southern Gaza Strip, the most overcrowded city in the world right now, designated as a “safe zone” so far despite continuous shellings. About 1.5 million Palestinian civilians have taken refuge there. The army warned residents through leaflets dropped by military planes to move to other areas of Gaza. An estimated 100,000 people live in eastern Rafah.

In the leaflets, the army indicated that it is preparing a military operation against the Resistance in the area. This evacuation order could be the preparatory phase for the invasion of the city, so far the only one not invaded by land, planned for weeks by the Israeli government but postponed several times due to international pressure, caused by the Western fear of losing Egypt, opposed to the invasion of areas near its borders, as a strategic partner.

International organizations and allies of the Zionists, including the United States, have consistently opposed the invasion of Rafah due to Egypt’s threats to withdraw from the agreements signed with the Zionist entity.

THE WORLD IS COMPLICIT. WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE.

Let us make this angry cry of alarm our own. We never gave particular credence to the negotiations, made suspicious by the clever propaganda campaign that had been orchestrated around it (“Everything depends on Hamas”, “If Hamas really cares about the fate of the people of Gaza”, “The political wing of Hamas is ready for an agreement, but Sinwar opposes it”, etc.), only to “discover” that for Netanyahu’s gang the assault on Rafah, the second act of genocide, was never in question. In essence, the Resistance forces would have to return almost all the prisoners still alive to their hands in order to get “in exchange”, with certainty, what? The assault on Rafah, only postponed for a few dozen days. Perhaps postponed, since the state of Israel has not fulfilled a single one of its promises, certain as it is 100% of its impunity.

Instead, we had taken seriously – isolated, but not at all intimidated by our isolation – another exchange promised by Washington & Co. to Tel Aviv: the one between the end of tensions between Israel and Iran and the green light for the destruction of Rafah, perhaps not officially expressed – what does it matter? We therefore take the liberty of repeating the political and operational conclusion of our analysis of a few days ago:

“For the time being, Israel has agreed to put the brakes on Tehran. But, on the ‘other hand’, he is eager to carry out the genocide operation by attacking Rafah with the same exterminating method with which he destroyed Gaza and Khan Younis, in order to prove that he is ‘invincible’ and that he has ‘eradicated Hamas’. Whatever the cost. If the attack on Rafah has so far been postponed, it is certainly not due to the ‘humanitarian’ qualms of Washington or European capitals, but to the fact that inevitably, by launching it, the Netanyahu government will also enter into friction with Egypt, which fears like the plague the mass encroachment of Palestinians into the area adjacent to Rafah – an area strongly depressed on an economic level and resentful towards the Egyptian central power because infrastructure projects are blocked and all the money available has been going to tourist areas in the south for a long time. As a result, it has been the main, if not the only, settlement area of Isis in the past years, and with the arrival of a mass of Palestinian refugees it would become a powder keg. But the Netanyahu gang is ready to take any adventure to impose what it dreams of being ‘the final solution’ to the Palestinian question, confident that it can drag behind it, whatever happens, its historical protectors and accomplices. And quite sure that it doesn’t have to fear Tehran’s action too much if it stays away from Iran’s vital interests, which do not include the liberation of Palestine at the hands of the Palestinian resistance.

“Once again, the only element holding back the continuation of the genocide is the strength of the global movement of solidarity with Palestine, which in recent days has been particularly active in U.S. universities denouncing the total cover-up given by Biden &. Co. to the genocide (Trump, for his part, has already guaranteed that he will be even more determined than Biden in this) – a protest in which student groups and anti-Zionist Jewish associations have participated. And it is always the strength, still limited but very real, of this movement – combined, needless to say, with the fundamental strength of the Palestinian resistance – that does not allow the International Criminal Court to cover up the proceedings opened against the serial killers who govern the Israeli state, and even pushes it to ventilate a possible arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Gallant and Halevi.

“That is why the political imperative of the moment is to redouble efforts to relaunch the mobilization of the streets everywhere to prevent the attack on Rafah and impose a definitive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“We have listened carefully to the latest message (circulating on the net) from the commander of the al Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaydah. If we put its religious language in parentheses, its political content is an integral and proud vindication, rightly proud, of the strength that the Palestinian resistance has shown and continues to show in the clash with the “Nazi” and “sadistic” army of the “invaders” that with its fury of “blind, indiscriminate, destructive revenge” is definitively disfiguring his image in front of the world, showing his total estrangement from the land he claims to occupy forever. At the same time, more than in other previous messages, after a reference to “betrayal” [not specified, but evidently of forces considered friendly – n.], there is an appeal to the “masses, to the nations, to the forces of our great nation [a reference that can have a double meaning: Arabic and “Islamic” – n.] and to the free peoples of the world, wherever they may be,” which is not new, but seems to us to be formulated with particular intensity. Perhaps the fighting wing on the ground of Hamas realizes that the hopes it has placed on “friendly states” are crushed by the realpolitik of these bourgeois regimes, willing to sacrifice the Palestinian cause to their own power interests. So, while the long-standing betrayal of the Arab regimes is fully confirmed (in Egypt those who demonstrate in support of the Palestinians are arrested!), as well as the irreducible hostility to the Palestinian cause of the entire Western establishment, the only thing that remains to prevent the genocide in Rafah planned by the Zionists is the strength of the oppressed masses of the Arab and “Islamic” world and of the whole world.

“We are not in a position to assess whether or not what the mainstream press presents as the “latest proposals” of the political wing of Hamas: a five-year truce in exchange for Palestinian statehood are authentic or not. But we are certain of one fact: today more than ever the cause of Palestinian resistance and liberation is the cause of the resistance and liberation of the oppressed and exploited all over the world – and the enemy to be defeated, for the Palestinian people and for us who have always supported their struggle for national and social liberation, is first and foremost the “community” of Zionist and Western exploiters and oppressors. But without having any illusions about that other breed of profiteers who in Tehran, Beijing, Damascus, and perhaps even in Moscow, Israel’s historic ally, count on being able to fatten themselves with the sacrifice and blood of the Palestinians. Suffice it to say that first Moscow (with Lavrov) and then Beijing summoned Hamas and other resistance groups to report to force them to make peace with the Abu Mazen PA’s collaborators with Israel: what great friends of the Palestinian cause!”