{"id":261005,"date":"2024-04-29T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261005"},"modified":"2024-04-28T02:17:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T01:17:21","slug":"israel-just-launched-a-brutal-attack-on-rafah-beyond-shame-beyond-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/israel-just-launched-a-brutal-attack-on-rafah-beyond-shame-beyond-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Just Launched a Brutal Attack on Rafah. \u201cBeyond Shame, Beyond Crime\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261006\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/khan-younis-rafah-gaza-genocide-israel-palestine.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261006\" class=\"wp-image-261006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/khan-younis-rafah-gaza-genocide-israel-palestine.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/khan-younis-rafah-gaza-genocide-israel-palestine.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/khan-younis-rafah-gaza-genocide-israel-palestine-300x206.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khan Younis, Rafah, Gaza &#8211; Global Research<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>22 Apr 2024 &#8211;<\/em> Brutality, atrocity no end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">Horrendous indiscriminate firebombing of Gaza\u2019s southernmost city, Rafah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">We know Netanyahu does not move a finger without Washington\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">This was clearly proven by the benign counterattack on Iran \u2013 to \u201cretaliate\u201d against Iran\u2019s 14 April \u201ccheckmate\u201d (Scott Ritter) retaliatory attack on Israel. Retaliating against Israel\u2019s blowing up Iran\u2019s Consulate in Damascus on 1 April and killing seven Iranians, including two military officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">President Biden demanded Netanyahu not to risk a large-scale war, to be soft with his retaliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">By contrast,<strong> Biden must have given Netanyahu green light to do away with Rafah, where currently more than a million Palestinians are stranded \u2013 bombed from the North of Gaza to the southern tip, Rafah, the locked gate to Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0834226173ydpe23ec5cyiv9204084861MsoNormal\">See this 12-second video. It shows the horror these people must go through. No idea how many will be killed. Its extermination of an entire people \u2013 mandated by the Zionists in charge of the US of A and all the puppets in Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 Israel launches airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0T8ByvljT\" >pic.twitter.com\/j0T8ByvljT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRICSinfo\/status\/1782090165957095478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/israel-brutal-attack-rafah\/5855398\" >Continue reading in the Original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Apr 2024 &#8211; Brutality, atrocity no end.<br \/>\nHorrendous indiscriminate firebombing of Gaza\u2019s southernmost city, Rafah.<br \/>\nWe know Netanyahu does not move a finger without Washington\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[532,1854,2898,1199,2242,87,865,1643,1029,1966,1644,88,2416,715,427,124,70,965,1025],"class_list":["post-261005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-hunger","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261007,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261005\/revisions\/261007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}