Nadene Goldfoot
Rafah is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, already called Palestine by the Arabs. It is the capital of the Rafah Governorate of the State of Palestine, used as a proxy of Iran; located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south-west of Gaza City. President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he feels have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.
Declaration of the state of Palestine was in 1988. This took place in Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) that was led by Arafat, one of Israel's worst enemies.
The PLO were terrorists from the beginning, attacking Israel's water supply in 1965. No one came to the aid of Israeli border cities like Sderot and Ashkelon from the UN. Arafat died on November 4, 2004. A Palestine is not a legitimate accepted state such as all the other worldly states that have acceptance by the UN, but it's still something the Democrats are pushing for. Palestine was simply the re-naming of Israel by the Romans as a way of getting even for Jews to take over Jerusalem in 132-135 CE. The Jewish leader, Bar Kokhba, was killed in battle in 135 CE. There never was a state of Palestine like there was an Egypt and a Syria and a Lebanon! But there was an ISRAEL !!!
In 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty that returned the Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip, to Egyptian control. In the Peace Treaty, the re-created Gaza–Egypt border was drawn across the city of Rafah. The Egypt–Palestine border, also called Egypt–Gaza border, is the 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. There is a buffer zone along the border which is about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) long. Rafah became a hot potato.
In 1982, the total population was approximately 10,800. By 1988, when they declared themselves Palestine, they probably had 11,000. Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the sole crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Formerly operated by Israeli military forces, control of the crossing was transferred to the Palestinian Authority in September 2005 as part of the larger Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. A European Union commission began monitoring the crossing in November 2005 amid Israeli security concerns, and in April 2006, Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard assumed responsibility for the site on the Palestinian Authority side. On the Egyptian side, the responsibility is assumed by the 750 Border Guards as per the agreement signed by Egypt and Israel in November 2005.
In the 2006 PCBS estimate, Rafah city had a population of 71,003, Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities for census purposes, having populations of 59,983 and 24,418, respectively. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip for just people.
Rafah was divided into an Egyptian and a Palestinian part, splitting up families, separated by barbed-wire barriers. Families were separated, property was divided and many houses and orchards were cut across and destroyed by the new boundary, bulldozed, allegedly for security reasons. That kept Israelis and Egyptians safer than neglecting to do this. The terrorists would not stop attacking! Rules are made only as the need arises. Rafah became one of the three border points between Egypt and Israel
In 2017, 7 years ago, Rafah had a population of 171,889.As a result of massive bombardment and ground assaults in Gaza City and Khan Yunis by Israel during the Israel–Hamas war, about 1.4 million (1,400,000) Palestinians are believed to be sheltering in Rafah as of February 2024.
The 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, also known as the Great March of Return , were a series of demonstrations held each Friday in the Gaza Strip near the Gaza-Israel border from 30 March 2018 until 27 December 2019, in which Israeli forces killed a total of 223 Palestinian/Hamas terrorists.
Since 2001, Palestinian militants/terrorists have launched tens of thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The attacks, widely condemned for targeting civilians, have been described as terrorism by the United Nations, the European Union, and Israeli officials, and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets to be illegal under international law. Palestinian militants (Hamas) say rocket attacks are a response to Israel's blockade of Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned them and says rocket attacks undermine peace.
The demonstrators demanded that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return to lands they were displaced from in what is now Israel. They protested against Israel's land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip and the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.
He was not recognized at first, as this happened as an accident. Being he spent 20 years in Israeli prison, his DNA was on record, which was used to prove that this body was indeed, THE Sinwar who was a wanted man, the leader spewing death. One should understand that ridding themselves of Hamas is the only way that Israel will know of peace for their people. Another leader will come forth and take Sinwar's place and the terrorists need to see that it's not bringing them any happiness.
- Initial Israeli counter-operation (October 2023) ...
- 2.3 Invasion of the Gaza Strip until the truce (October–November 2023)
- 2.4 Duration of the truce (November–December 2023)
- 2.5 Resumption of hostilities (December 2023 – May 2024) ...
- 2.6 Beginning of the Rafah offensive (May–July 2024)
- Telling Israel that they cannot chase away Hamas terrorists.
- Telling Israel to stay out of Rafah which causes too many Hamas/Civilian deaths.
- I'm going to hammer away: This is the responsibility of Hamas. It is their job to protect their people. The terrorists must surrender. They must change their goals. They must accept a peace plan and stick to it. Iran has used them as patsies of their ungodly plans. They have been duped. Israel cannot stand by and let their people die as if they are targets at a fairground. There is never going to be a slaughter again like October 7th!!! There is no teddy bear being won by any killer; only a ferocious Israel !!! Do they need more? Leaders of the world, would you allow this to happen in your country? Of course, the answer is NO. There is only one reason to go into Rafah; to stop the attacks on Israel for as long as humanly possible.
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