Hands Off Rafah: Emergency Protests Against New Phase Of Netanyahu’s Gaza Genocide

By Answer Coalition Photos: Answer Coalition In outraged response to Israel’s threats to take its genocide in Gaza to new heights, protesters held emergency actions nationwide to Shut It Down for Palestine! The majority of Gaza’s population has been forced to flee to Rafah, the southernmost region along the border with Egypt. Roughly 1.5 million people are now packed into an area half the size of San Francisco, many without shelter or food. Now, the U.S.-supplied Israeli war machine is pledging to smash into the area with its full destructive force to achieve a horrific “final victory.” Emergency action held at City Hall in Houston, Texas Mass marches numbering in the thousands broke out in major cities nationwide, and countless actions large and small took place in every part of the country. High school students in New York City took a stand and walked out of class on Friday, underscoring how young people in particular are disgusted with the genocidal policies of the Biden administration. Civil disobedience, die-ins and other forms of action disrupted business as usual. Hands off Rafah march in Washington, D.C. An invasion of Rafah would be the final move in Israel’s plot to carry out a...