Israeli forces squeezing Palestinians into ever shrinking area in Gaza This was all part of the plan that was announced by the Israeli minister of defence when Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18
Rafah was home to about a quarter of a million Palestinians. It takes up about a fifth of the territory of the Gaza Strip. It is now off limits to Palestinians.
You have the eastern side of Gaza being cleared of not just Palestinians, but of the buildings that remain standing. And then Israel is also pushing from the north, from Beit Hanoon and from Jabalia.
And so the whole population 2.1 million of them, are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking area in Gaza, literally being squeezed westwards towards the sea.
Now, in the meantime, there is no food, no water, no electricity and no medicine. And that is also deliberate.
No aid has been allowed into Gaza since March 2 and that is exactly what the minister of defence of Israel had announced would happen when this resumption of the bombardment started.