Follow-up – Al-Rashid
A spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Laerke, said today, Tuesday, that Israel has not communicated with the office regarding a plan to evacuate the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip, either individually or jointly, stressing that the office will not participate in any forced evacuation even if Israel contacts it about this. The matter.
Lairk said, in response to questions from Reuters about Rafah’s plans, “Israeli officials never communicated with us officially.”
He added: “Apart from this, the United Nations does not participate in forced or involuntary evacuations. There is no plan at the present time to facilitate the evacuation of civilians.”
Earlier, Israeli occupation government spokesman Elon Levy called on United Nations agencies to cooperate with Israel to protect civilians from Hamas and evacuate them from the war zone so as not to use them as human shields, he claimed.
Source: Arabic
