Rafah Mayor: More than 50,000 Palestinians are trapped in the city without any services

Rafah Mayor Ahmed Al-Sufi confirmed that more than 50,000 citizens are besieged inside Rafah neighborhoods without any basic services or necessities of life, due to the "continuation of the brutal aggression."

Al-Sufi said: “The municipality crews and emergency committees cannot provide any basic services to the residents trapped inside the Rafah neighborhoods, which exacerbates the extent of the dangers facing them.”

He explained that ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to enter most areas of Rafah to respond to distress calls and evacuate the wounded and martyrs.

He explained that "the occupation forces are deliberately isolating Rafah from the world in order to hide the extent of the crimes and atrocities committed against the people of Rafah, considering that the documented scenes from Rafah of the martyrs on the streets represent a drop in the ocean of the crimes of genocide committed by the occupation mercenaries in Rafah."

 Al-Sufi called on international community institutions and human rights organizations to intervene "to curb the occupation's crimes and rescue tens of thousands of people trapped inside Rafah neighborhoods."

All water wells and tanks belonging to the Deir al-Balah municipality, which supply all areas of the city that are crowded with thousands of displaced people, have stopped due to the depletion of the fuel needed for operation.

On Saturday afternoon, the Israeli army committed a massacre in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), which left dozens of Palestinians dead and a large number wounded.

In the final tally announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, it said, "The number of Palestinians killed in the massacre committed by the Israeli army in the Al-Mawasi area has risen to 90, and 300 others were injured."

Israel has been continuing its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.