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PCP wants to hear Rangel in parliament about the situation in Palestine
The PCP today requested a hearing with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel, to explain the Government's position on the situation in Palestine, stressing that the offensive announced by Israel in Rafah makes "one fear a massacre".
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In the request addressed to the President of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, the PS deputy Sérgio Sousa Pinto, the PCP expresses its "greatest concern" with the Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
"In the last few days alone, the Israeli air force has launched more than 50 attacks against various places in Rafah, where 1.5 million inhabitants of the territory are refugees", it reads.
The PCP warns that the "announced offensive against the city raises fears of a large-scale massacre, which constitutes a crime of enormous proportions, all the more serious since it is an attack launched on a people who are in a situation of great fragility, exhausted, hungry, exposed to a situation in which they have no options that guarantee their safety".
"It is estimated that so far, as a result of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October, more than 34 thousand Palestinians have died - mostly children, women and the elderly - and more than 77 thousand have been injured, in addition to thousands more missing", it says.
In view of this situation, "and considering the urgent need for the international community to mobilize to demand an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid for the populations and a solution for peace", the PCP requests the hearing of Paulo Rangel to "give explanations about the position of the Portuguese government and its actions in the international plan in this process".
The Israeli army said today that it is maintaining "operations" in eastern Rafah and that it has resumed military activity in the Zeitun neighborhood, Gaza City, where, they claim, Hamas forces are located.
Israel began the military operation in Rafah on Monday, but insists that it is a "targeted" attack on the eastern part of Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, where about 1.5 million displaced people live, more than half of the population of Gaza.
The Israeli army ordered the withdrawal of about 100 thousand people from the eastern part of the city on Monday and, on Tuesday, took control of the Rafah crossing, which connects the enclave to Egypt.
The passage is vital for the entry of humanitarian aid. The UN indicated that about 110 thousand Palestinians from Rafah are displaced due to the violence.
In seven months of war, more than 34,900 Gazans have been killed, including 15,000 children, while about 10,000 bodies remain missing under the rubble, according to Hamas.
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