Israel says over 300,000 flee Rafah, UN calls for investigation into Gaza mass graves | DW News

The Israeli military says more than 300,000 people in Rafah have already fled the area as fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants intensifies in the southern region, which borders Egypt.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is calling for an independent investigation into reports of mass graves found near hospitals raided by Israel in Gaza. There are "competing narratives" about hundreds of unidentified bodies discovered at Gaza hospitals over the past weeks, UN officials say. Warning: This report contains distressing images.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Sami Sockol, Journalist
3:54 Aya Ibrahim, DW Special Correspondent
7:10 Mass graves
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#Rafah #Gaza #UN

[@kudaibergeno]

Offended by anything, ashamed of nothing.

[@adamredwine774]

Palestinians are indeed

[@HidrHjjhh]

I think you mean Israel government​@@adamredwine774

[@vinc6966]

@@adamredwine774u good mate?

[@adamredwine774]

@@vinc6966 I'm an awful lot better than the people in Gaza, yes.

[@jiminverness]

@@adamredwine774 Hamas.

[@Emmadaniels100]

One thing for sure, the people in the mass graves didn't put themselves in there. Such a shameful and horrifying situation for the whole world to witness.

[@adamredwine774]

Hamas sure might have.

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Al Jazeera reported that initial examination of the bodies indicated that some of the corpses found were buried alive. DW doesn’t hire reporters or experts in Gaza. It only hires Isreali officials. This is why DW will not be banned.

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Some were burried alive according to local forensic experts.

[@misterae6430]

​@@adamredwine774 who?

[@saiftarawneh3489]

@@adamredwine774 lol , think we Found the Hasbara bot.

[@kudaibergeno]

Natenyahu never wanted peace, he only wants more land. Thats why he rejected every peace agreement.

[@albertoserrano67]

Looking for a beach front property for tourism it's always about the money for politicians

[@KIA-MIA-POW]

Insanity runs deep and appears to be contagious!

[@austineigwe9754]

Which cease fire?

[@yehldyehld]

Wasn't it hamas who rejects peace offerings? Isn't it also hamas who started this round of conflict by committing an act of evil on Oct 7th?

[@paulanderson2963]

Oh yes the good old "Who started it argument" ever since kindergarten it's been the easiest "it's everybody else's fault" card to play. It's the same way that it's 100% Japan's fault that two nukes were dropped on them. It just had to be done right?

[@JohnEichmann]

so that's why international media is not allowed in Gaza.

[@AdamBechtol]

Indeed.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Because it’s an active warzone. With footage can place service personnel at risk of their positions to the enemy. Do people like you think before commenting?

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

We don’t need journalists reporting from Gaza. We have DW directly conveying what we are supposed to know by Israel officials.

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Media that does’t support Israel is antseemitic .

[@misterae6430]

​@@MrWhitmen1981bullcrap we need reportinh

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Isreal has the right to defend itself from women and children

[@awayvfx4692]

🗣🗣

[@SorbusAucubaria]

look that todler had a gun and yelled free Palestine, he was a terrorrist!

[@josephshields2922]

Don't forget journalists, aid workers, and doctors and their own people.

[@SatabdiKundu07]

1200 people died in one sudden morning by the govt where these women and children were living, those people using them as shield.

[@SatabdiKundu07]

​@@josephshields2922 you are so concerned about their own people.

[@johnconnors3962]

Free the US from Israel

[@dr.ssrajput7989]

US is the most treacherous, cunning country. Must not be had as an alliance in any field.

[@kawkaw6490]

More like Free the US from sleepy Joe .😅 Trump 2024 let's continue support Israel 🇮🇱.❤😊

[@genesimring3135]

❤

[@BernardOdili]

Israel live is not in the hands of US,u forgot who keeps Israel never sleeps nor slumber, the God of the Israel is watching over his nation

[@univeropa3363]

Nooooootthing to see here, guys, it's just the most moral army in the world hard at work carrying out their moral acts.

[@hamwhacker]

Yes but the Palestinians literally breed children to sacrifice rather than protect them from the front line

[@veganbadass_]

More moral than Hamas

[@univeropa3363]

@@veganbadass_ "Sure".

[@gororgelester985]

@@veganbadass_ good to hear they're more moral than an internationally recognized terrorist organization. we only expect the best from our allies.

[@sunrise1975italia]

Can’t even compare 💙🇮🇱

[@ivocyrillo]

And what is doing Germany about it?

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Assistin of course. Or do you think anyone could do this without help?

[@user-wt6co4ot3i]

Please, can secretary general give us updates on the situation in Sudan and Haiti?

[@barbaralindhjem2488]

So israel is making a little living room huh? And mass graves? What happened to never again?

[@miguelmelchior986]

Exacly.. of all countries..

[@jiminverness]

Even if that were true, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of gazan graves from Hamas.

[@johnd2058]

Never again *to us*.

[@AdamBechtol]

Mmmm

[@leavesinautumn5959]

@@jiminverness You don't get to "but Hamas" your way out of this one. If killing hundreds of civilians makes Hamas terrorists, what more for those who have killed tens of thousands, injured twice that number. It's clear to anyone who isn't being purposely obtuse which of the two is responsible for greater harm.

[@Snoopy37120]

The Gazan's have been funded with Billions by UN, Iran etc. Israel provided electricity water pipes etc., Hamas used pipes for rockets.

[@RRR-vi3hs]

Germany - it is insane, that you seem to take the side of mass graves.. again. Complicity is clear. Never again.

[@sharonrozier4984]

Where are they to go?

[@inthendwealldie]

They are to stay in Gaza, perhaps they’ll move to central or north gaza, or stay put, as no nearby Arab countries wants to accept probably 250k - 1 million Palestinians with unknown backgrounds for certain reasons

[@games2try863]

@@inthendwealldie we don't want them to leave so israel doesn't steal more of their land

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Reports? We’ve seen them on the news

[@asha8443]

This is beyond reprehensible..and we as Americans are complicit in this genocide

[@BridgeTROLL777]

The US will single handedly block the UN membership for Palestine that was approved yesterday.... The US and Israel conduct is repulsive, debased and vile.

[@Dianeallen-ml5fp]

Not me!🇺🇸

[@johnbartholf777]

You mean how Hamas is murdering their own people?

[@Rnankn]

Yup, undeniably

[@olafsigursons]

You are not American. American are for freedom, you are supporting a religious far-right regime worse than Trump.

[@user-wc8lw9km4w]

Sanctions???

[@user-ok9ny5ih7w]

Every piece of information from Gaza is terrific. I pray for peace in the Middle East.

[@verandisoldusty6834]

You might want to look up the meaning of terrific as it's similar to fantastic or brilliant. Guessing you meant horriffic or horrendous?

[@user-ok9ny5ih7w]

@@verandisoldusty6834 Sorry, I mean "Horrific".

[@SandeepMeena79]

What about Hamas. Aren't they fueling this.

[@bogumilaskowron2680]

No they aren’t fueling this.Only israel is guilty

[@R0M8N]

What about Ukraine

[@QLHOOQ]

The NATO countries complaining about the war crimes Putin is committing in Ukraine are now supplying Is Ra e l with bim bs...

[@_SIRENITY_]

The lefties move on to what is ‘fashionable’ at the moment. They’re quiet on the Ukraine front now.

[@normalAlien398]

Ukraine should be given an iron dome to protect them from russian missiles and drones. But guess who opposes the idea? Israel, Israel pressured US to not give iron dome to Ukraine.

[@christianx8494]

Whataboutery does not deliver arguments.

[@_SIRENITY_]

@@christianx8494 When it’s a relative comparison they do yes. However OPs suggestion to is not wholly the same context so is irrelevant.

[@jigold22571]

I have never been more ashamed as a Human being..

[@Rnankn]

@@3x157whataboutism

[@johnbartholf777]

I'd be ashamed too if I believed the lies of Hamas.

[@olafsigursons]

That's just because you have a very selective moral.

[@misterae6430]

​@@johnbartholf777israel bot. Same like russian bots 😂

[@n.a.larson9161]

At base, the protests aren't "Pro-Palestinian", but they are focused on the civilians' rights and welfare. They aren't anti-Israel, but they're anti-warcrime. At least the smarter and less biased protests.

[@iadorenewyork1]

Exactly right.

[@Snoopy37120]

do you mean the war crimes of Hamas?

[@iadorenewyork1]

@@Snoopy37120 -- Can't you hold two tragedies in your mind at once? Yes, Hamas' attack was heinous. AND what Israel has done in the last seven months, and for years earlier, is horrible and should be condemned.

[@Snoopy37120]

@@iadorenewyork1 I absolutely agree and I always have. All of this is a horrible tragedy. But in this instance, the fact is Israel wouldn't be doing what it's doing right now if it wasn't for October 7. That's my point. Hamas are terrorist. Israel is not.

[@n.a.larson9161]

@Snoopywoodstock37 I'm glad you agree because this should be simple to explain. I didn't say terrorist. I said war crimes. Israel is fighting a war after a terrorist attack on Oct 7th. Israel can do this by legal conduct of war, or it could commit atrocities. There are many credible claims that Israel is doing multiple illegal things according to international law that it is party to (treaties). These acts, not yet proven in court, but credibly appear to be what are called "war crimes."

[@garnetrose6162]

The light/Truth will always overcome the darkness

[@Superratis]

An occupying force has no right to defend itself as per international law, there won't be a way to justify this in the future. As a westerner, I am disgusted.

[@starter47990]

Israel can not occupy its own land. Israel existed there 3,000 years before Arabs even stepped foot in Gaza

[@saggybawlz]

What are they occupying exactly?

[@denisdaly1708]

​@@saggybawlzGaza. Get educated

[@olafsigursons]

Sure, but you are OK supporting Hamas, I am ashamed for you.

[@leavesinautumn5959]

@@olafsigursons You're being purposely obtuse, I suppose its easier than trying to justify the unjustifiable. After everything we've seen, only those without any humanity or a conscience, support Israels actions.

[@maxsmith3580]

UN should worry about its ineffectiveness and absence of reforms in the out dated organisation.

[@luislourenco6720]

Should be the same concern that you had as prime minister of Portugal when all the millions from Europe aid to developed the country where missing

[@williamlai29]

8:31 UN: I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza. Me: You are deeply alarmed by the obvious?!?

[@user-ib4ut6vy2g]

Hamas is despicable.

[@bogumilaskowron2680]

No israel is despicable

[@jayski9667]

Israel is not far behind.

[@godfreynkhonjera886]

The UN has become obsolete, why allow such to happen?😢

[@seeitasitis]

Just talk but know action

[@hernanigomes941]

Why they don't release the hostages!

[@alvinjun5669]

but in Ukrain UN did not call investigati mass graves??? why is that?

[@justsomeone1853]

But they did have independent investigators in Ukraine. I don't known if it was the UN, the Red Cross or what but they were independent which is the point that is being made. This was reported and there is video available. A famous case being Bucha.

[@user-kr4uv2jt1w]

UN had investigated ...google by the keyword "UN Bucha"

[@hedvigforever]

Dad to son: dont squeeze the hámster too hard, or it will die. Son: what will you do if I do. Dad: I ll be conserned. The Rest is history…

[@EdinProfa]

Deeply alarmed for israeli crimes. Sanctions and weapons against for russian crimes. All you need to know about this world.

[@jiminverness]

_"Deeply alarmed for israeli crimes."_ ...but notably *not* for gazan crimes. Typical.

[@JustMonday-tu4rx]

DW, do you read comments? As you know, there is an expert discussion to the definition of what is a Palestinian. Why not calling the concerned people Gazans?

[@CreativeArt-kf1sq]

Gutteres deeply alarm massgrave but he didn't alarm when hamas cold bloded mass murder oct 7

[@chizzymomentum1807]

To where!!!!! This is madness!!!! 👀🤷🏾‍♂️

[@tobyihli9470]

Can you people add? There are currently less than a million people left in Gaza, and many more are leaving every day.

[@ARIXANDRE]

Empty words are definitely what comes out of Gutierrez's mouth.

[@inthendwealldie]

He’s just there so he won’t get fined

[@24underground7]

you keep saying densely packed area without ever saying how small the area is.. prey tell, how small is the area?

[@Rnankn]

Look at a map

[@macmcleod1188]

Israel has provided 10 areas closer to the coast for them to move to with food, water, shelter, medical care and supplies. Treating them better than H. has.

[@24underground7]

@@Rnankn same size as Manhattan.. did you know that?

[@bluthammer1442]

oh now ladies and gentlemen. The U.n is alarmed. Note it down please, note it down.

[@Damacles9]

IDF: "I was just following orders..."

[@Picasso_305]

What a mess...and we have Joe Biden as a world leader...what a joke.

[@proudcanadian1837]

So, has hamas said they will lay down arms, stop all fighting, and work with Isreal going forward on a two state system? I maybe missed a press releasing on this? As I would imagine, with everyone saying not to pursue Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, they want peace and harmony?

[@mmamsc1988]

Has Netanyahu said that he would also agree to a two state system? Maybe I missed something from the multiple times he's said that he opposes the two state system, along with all of his genocide peddling right wing government. 🙄 Don't act like everything started on October 7th. Do some reading.

[@mavberil.2059]

The UN should change.

[@iadorenewyork1]

Gutierrez is the UN’s moral center. He is very truthful, even handed, and well spoken.

[@mavberil.2059]

He lacks sufficient governing experience like some one like Tony Blair, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Javier Peres De Q..., Jorge Castaneda, Condoleeza Rice, Koffi Anan, El Sisi.

[@sigmundsilber2210]

Does DW want to complete the Final Solution?

[@user-po7ft9qt9x]

UN should investigate itself…

[@curtiusemmanus7122]

Mass grave in Ukraine don't mean anything to you un chief

[@Transformers-oe5jj]

Irgun and Lechi decemdants endlessly commiting horrendous crimes against humanity

[@atreports]

The Israeli military says more than 300,000 people in Rafah have already fled the area as fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants intensifies in the southern region, which borders Egypt.

[@anthikadjohn9594]

Why UN is silent on Ukraine, Sudan and Africa

[@user-kr4uv2jt1w]

Is not silent. Had voted for the issue of Ukraine.

[@Karlsvensson777]

Are you deeply alarmed by mass graves in Bucha, Aleppo and Grozny? Why not?

[@asha8443]

Troll

[@yabutmaybenot.6433]

Nothing like whataboutism to demonstrate that you have no credibility.

[@electrolytics]

This news presenter is awful. I thought this was a German news channel?

[@cressida00]

Not 'deeply concerned ' about it 2 do anything though.

[@JeanBeranek]

They got mowed down . Man woman child .. The city flattened..

[@k3630]

What do you expect during a war?? Individual coffins and graves?

[@hermannrudas]

I am deeply alarmed ! .. what a joke

[@roelralutin7805]

Guterres is a hypocrite.

[@workingtoseethelight8244]

So sad as to see these poor people fleeing their homes may there be lasting peace for Palestine. Mass graves again, hey everyone let's stop killing each other. Pretty Please?

[@olafsigursons]

They are as poor people as the Germans fleeing the US troop in 1945. The Hamas is a religious far-right government. The Palestinians support them, they never tried to remove them from power in 20 years.

[@user-lf9mt3ry3b]

Gaza is the Auschwitz concentration camp of the 21st century😢

[@garnetrose6162]

This is beyond atrocious

[@gaborrajnai6213]

Doesnt Amerca want to export a little democracy to Israel?

[@Thiscannotbetruebutitis]

Thank you DW for your unwavering support for Israel. No lawlessness or cruelty can diminish your backing.

[@chengery9954]

is it possible to be true?

[@johnbartholf777]

It's true. Hamas is murdering their own people.

[@Transformers-oe5jj]

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians Nelson Mande

[@saimafaisal4126]

All the allies of ishrahell are also to be blamed 😢

[@robertmoskal5345]

Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015. According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that " those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state." Then, the October 11 happened and the Israelis switched tack by unleashing their genocidal policy to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence. Together with thousands of innocents.

[@josezerpa8177]

That guy Guterres lies more than Justin Trudeau and I’ll leave it at that.

[@mimkyari]

Dear Netanyahu. The promised land is a safe house for all people of the Book. You should fear God and think of the day he would judge you for oppressing believers and worshippers of him, the ONE true God of Moses, Jesus & Muhammad living on lands belonging to none but him.

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

Heartbreaking what's happening in Palestine. How can Palestinians survive this terror?

[@elishmuel1976]

I know! LEt's hope they will investigate whether hamas and UNRWA murdered the palestinians to blame Israel for it. They've done it before so need to be vigilant

[@seanphurley]

​@@elishmuel1976and then punish the people the committee finds proof against, regardless of which side they are on. Both sides have blamed the other for human rights abuses they committed

[@elishmuel1976]

@@seanphurley bingpot. DId you notice the UN just revised the # of women and children deaths in the conflict? They cut it by roughly half. Good investigations will uncover the truth.

[@tomhenry897]

Investigate the UN for helping Hammas oct7

[@mackeverett9351]

What did Hamas do got set up

[@GladiatorDravenADC]

Palestina Libre 🇵🇸🇰🇵🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇪🇨🇺🇮🇷

[@jayllaneta2507]

U N. is toothless..... 😢😮

[@monirzamani7943]

Nothing can stop Israel.. They are super power

[@truthmatters8689]

CORRECT, THIS GERMANS SUPPORTING HAMAS

[@DennisMerwood-xk8wp]

ISRAEL WILL STOP ISRAEL Israel is not long for this world

[@fronabulax63]

here is commentary policing going on😅

[@auromira8840]

Germany also responsible for Palestinians.

[@QLHOOQ]

The NATO countries complaining about the war crimes Putin is committing in Ukraine are now supplying Is Ra e l with bim bs...The weapons Germany is sending come with ww2 instructions...

[@AwaisAli-rd2qp]

yah if they clean the earth from zionism then Palestine naver suffer today

[@Harry-ej9qi]

Shame on Hamas and their supporters for starting this terrible war!

[@CultureoftheWorld]

The journalist never ask hard questions

[@nazraz6537]

Alarmed but can't do zilch who pays your wages mr un president

[@harryPair]

Business as usual

[@prapaharanthambithurai7503]

it is very same to say we live in a civilized world same time Israel exist with the genocide

[@kathleenklein4231]

I am deeply concerned when I hear about the Israeli and American hostages being murdered, raped and mutilated. The UN is one sided.

[@tiam2155]

According to the bible palestine and Israel are brother please let fight to the end. Brother never get alone. Amen! It’s time to test the real God.

[@gkepxx]

Justice & Independence for Palestine🇵🇸

[@tobyihli9470]

300,000, in just over a week. I’d say it’s going well, don’t you think? All this in spite of UNWRA telling them not to leave, to stay and be martyred for Hamas’ sake. They tell the people to stay and be martyred, all the while they will leave once the fighting begins.

[@AdaZurpia]

[@georgiadawgs8260]

Half the news. Appreciate it! Protests in tel Aviv are NOT by all the families and nowhere near a majority either. 🙄🤷

[@user-wc8lw9km4w]

You're saying people that have family members held hostage in Palestine are ok with lsraeI not offering peace to rescue their family members??? That's another level of brainwash 🇮🇱💪

[@truthseeker4491]

We humans are still barbarians. But we are well- dressed up.

[@user-vj7ev7ey2d]

Horrible.... 😢😢😢

[@patrickgz]

un alarmed west concerned isahel shreds un charter palestines ...

[@rehamanshaik8155]

Most WANTED Netanyahu and Biden and Rishi sunak and Emmanuel macron and Antony albanese and Justin Trudeau and Anthony Blinken Lloyd Austin and Olaf Scholz and ulf kristersson Ben gvir and Kamal Harris and

[@GladiatorDravenADC]

Don’t forget Volodymyr Zelenskyy and narendra modi and Fumio Kishida

[@s.m.1354]

Why are you not concerned about the undermining of the Rules Based Order by the EBU during the Songfestival?

[@cosmicpsyops4529]

No one was deeply alarmed before October 7th yet the problem was here even then. Without swift, coordinated, and effective world governance, power will flow down steep gradients, destroying vulnerable people and ecosystems.

[@genesimring3135]

Free Palestine from Hamas!

[@christianx8494]

Free Israel and Judaism from the Kahanists.

[@genesimring3135]

@@christianx8494 I believe the Kahanists have been banned from Israel.

[@lgrantgossett7590]

Egypt should allow women, children and elderly Gazans to cross into Egypt temporarily if they care.

[@jayfender4486]

Lol as if Hamas is not responsible for mass graves

[@misterae6430]

Nothing to laugh aboutt sicko

[@jayfender4486]

@misterae6430 It isn't but you are

[@Kohen124]

Hamas is running out of human shields, that must make Guterres and the desktop pro-terrorist bloggers on this channel uncomfortable.

[@seanrambarran2323]

😂😂😂 one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza right now. How many human shields does Hamas need?

[@Kohen124]

@@seanrambarran2323 Hamas only cares about having them at their disposal, you and your emojis know this very well.

[@seanrambarran2323]

@@Kohen124 hamas is underground in the tunnels with the hostages. Israel idf are afraid to go after them that's why 7 months now they can't rescue them. So the idf takes out their frustration on innocent Palestinians and blames their deaths on hamas using them as human shields. But the whole world knows it's a cowards lie.

[@Kohen124]

​@@seanrambarran2323 Fathi Hammad thinks differently than you, he takes advantage of any of his people for his purpose, perhaps you would like to review his statements.

[@user-wc8lw9km4w]

But how come we never seen not even one video of hamas using human shields? Or why not even one Palestinian said he/she saw or heard of someone being used as a human shield?

[@calj2090]

Die deutschen sind aber eher zufrieden

[@xSabir-hc7wj]

why not investigate tho?

[@RobertSklar2013]

Cause it feeds the BS and the antisemitism. Why not investigate Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and the rest of the evil ones

[@khualpuzou9397]

Isreal should elect a new PM...