The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, February 19, that “the people of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the most populous city on the face of the earth, must be protected.”

This came in a post on the UNICEF account in the Middle East and North Africa, via the “X” platform.

The UN added that “Rafah, one of the most densely populated places on Earth, now houses half of Gaza’s population.”

She stressed “the need to protect the people of Rafah, many of whom have been displaced several times due to the war, and have no safe place to go.”

The occupation government threatens to carry out an attack on the Palestinian city of Rafah, to which about 1.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip were displaced after the massive attack on Gaza since October 7, 2023, which claimed the lives of thousands in addition to thousands of missing people and the destruction that befell infrastructure and residential buildings.

The city of Rafah is witnessing significant overcrowding, as there are at least 1.4 million Palestinians, including more than a million displaced people who took refuge there as a result of Israeli army operations in the northern and central Gaza Strip, claiming that it is a “safe zone.”