UNRWA: Israeli attack on Rafah is a 'catastrophe'

 Four months after Israel's attack on Gaza, the brutal regime's military forces have intensified airstrikes in the southernmost area of ​​Gaza, where more than half of the area's 2.4 million residents have fled to refuge. Israeli warplanes attacked the city on the night of Thursday and Friday. At least three children were among eight people killed Friday morning in a military attack on a house in Rafah. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, five of those killed were members of the same family. The military forces of the criminal Israeli regime have bombed the areas where they had directed the Palestinians to "seek safety." United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an X post on Friday that Israel's invasion of Rafah "will escalate what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences." Some of the Palestinians killed in the genocide carried out by Israel against Gaza Earlier this week, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that any move by the illegal Israeli regime to extend its full-scale occupation of Gaza to the densely populated southern city of Rafah could amount to a war crime that must be be prevented at any cost. Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Switzerland, OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said, "We as the United Nations and the United Nations Member States can testify and we can make clear what the law says," under international humanitarian law, bombing in populated areas it could be a war crime.” Since it began its genocidal war against Gaza in early October last year, 1.9 million people - 85 percent of Gaza's population - have fled their homes. Israeli attacks have also killed an estimated 28,000 people so far, mostly women and children.