According to the Biden administration , Israel has amassed enough troops on the edge of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip to proceed with a large-scale incursion in the coming days .
CNN reports this, citing two senior US leaders, who however are not certain that Tel Aviv has made a definitive decision for such a move, in open defiance of the American president .
One of the leaders also warned that Israel had not come anywhere close to making adequate humanitarian preparations before potentially evacuating more than a million residents of the Palestinian enclave who currently reside in Rafah.
Yesterday, right near the Rafah crossing, a UN employee was killed and another was seriously injured following a shooting . While investigations are underway, Israeli army forces apparently fired the shots.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres immediately called for the opening of an "in-depth" investigation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say the two UN employees were hit while in a vehicle transiting an active combat zone and that further details of what happened in the southern Gaza Strip city are still under investigation. investigation.
(Unioneonline/L)
