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Qatar appeals to international community to prevent 'genocide' in Rafah
Qatar today appealed to the international community to prevent a "genocide" in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, which faces the threat of a large-scale offensive by the Israeli army.
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The Gulf country, which has been mediating talks on a truce between Israel and Hamas, appealed in a statement released early today for "urgent international action to prevent the city being overrun and a crime of genocide being committed".
Qatar's government condemned the Israeli military's seizure of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt.
"The State of Qatar condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation forces' shelling of Rafah Governorate, their storming of the border crossing, and their threats to displace citizens from their homes and shelters," Qatar's foreign ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
It said Doha - which has been working with Egypt to try to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas - also called for "full protection to be provided to civilians, in line with international law and humanitarian law".
Qatar said that "the forced displacement of civilians from Rafah city, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip, constitutes a grave violation of international law and will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the region".
It reiterated Qatar's "firm position" in supporting "justice for the Palestinian cause, the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital".
The Israeli military earlier confirmed it had taken over the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, a key entry point for humanitarian aid into the enclave, as part of what it described as a "pinpoint" operation in "limited areas" against Hamas "terror infrastructure".
The operation came hours after Israel's security cabinet, set up after Hamas attacks on 7 October, agreed to press on with its offensive, despite the Palestinian Islamist group saying it had accepted a ceasefire proposal put forward by Qatar and Egypt.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said on Tuesday it had reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza, an entry point for humanitarian aid that had been closed for the past three days.
The crossing was shut by Israel after a Hamas rocket attack killed four Israeli soldiers.
Rafah has been a conduit for humanitarian aid since the war began and is the only point where people can enter and leave the enclave.
Israel now controls all the border crossings into the Palestinian territory.
See also: Israeli forces announce reopening of humanitarian crossing in Rafah (Portuguese version)
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