GAZA, (PIC)
The Rafah municipality in Gaza has strongly denounced Israeli war minister Yisrael Katz’s decision to annex the area stretching between the Morag road and the Salahuddin (Philadelphi) corridor, which constitutes the entire Rafah governorate, to Israel’s security zones.
“This unilateral decision blatantly violates international law and UN resolutions that assert the inviolability of the occupied Palestinian lands and our people’s national rights,” the municipality said in a statement on Saturday.
The municipality added that this Israeli declaration “does not change the fact that every inch of Rafah is an integral part of the Palestinian land and will remain so forever.”
The municipality called on the international community to shoulder its legal and humanitarian responsibilities in this regard and act urgently to halt Israel’s aggressive practices that target civilians and threatens to expand the conflict.
