Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, is heading to Israel with a warning that any assault on Rafah would “push the humanitarian situation over the edge”. While generally siding with Israel in the war, Germany has been sounding the alarm over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and Ms Baerbock will use her trip to plead for more aid and guarantees for the safety of UN staff. With more than one million Palestinians sheltering at Gaza’s southern tip after Israel ordered an evacuation of the north, people in Rafah “cannot simply vanish into thin air”, Ms. Baerbock said.

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