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Parents of 900 IDF soldiers demand IDF stop Rafah assault
The document was sent to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi. "Our children are physically and mentally exhausted," they lamented.
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The parents of more than 900 Israeli soldiers stationed in the Gaza Strip have called on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to halt its ongoing offensive in Rafah, which they say is a “death trap” for their sons.
“It is clear to any reasonable person that after months of warnings and announcements of an incursion into Rafah, there are forces on the other side actively preparing to harm our troops,” the parents said in a letter sent on 2 May, and cited by the Guardian.
The letter was initially signed by the parents of about 600 soldiers, but in recent days has been signed by the parents of another 300. It was sent to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
“Our sons are physically and mentally exhausted,” the letter added. “And now you intend to send them into this dangerous situation? This seems like nothing less than recklessness.”
Anat, the mother of one soldier, said the offensive in Rafah “is a death trap” because “Hamas has had plenty of time to prepare the place to kill” Israeli soldiers. “We are very worried and very anxious,” she said.
“In the first months of the war, we supported the whole operation. There was no choice but to fight and get rid of Hamas in Gaza. But in the past few months, we have seen there is no clear plan,” the woman said.
Idit, the mother of an Israeli company commander, said she is not “against the mission of fighting Hamas, but going into Rafah does not justify the mission,” and said her son, despite not wanting to enter Rafah, will do so “because he is loyal to the army.”
According to estimates from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), some 360,000 people have fled Rafah since the Israeli military first ordered the evacuation of the area a week ago.
Over the weekend, Israel expanded the displacement order to cover more areas in central Rafah, and on Monday added two more neighborhoods in the western half of the city.
According to figures from the Islamist group Hamas, more than 35,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed since the Gaza war began on 7 July, and almost 79,000 have been injured, with another 10,000 missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed in the relentless Israeli bombardment.
Read Also: Egypt warns US about threat of Israeli operations in Rafah (Portuguese version)
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