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→ That’s how many Palestinians have been “forced to flee” from Rafah since May 6, according to a Wednesday statement from U.S. Agency for International Aid and Development Director Dan Dieckhaus. (UNRWA puts the figure at 600,000.) For months, of course, the United States’ official line was that Israel shouldn’t go into Rafah because it had no “credible” plan to evacuate the civilians there. Now that the civilians are evacuating, the U.S. line is to complain that people are being “forced to flee.”
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