This footage was filmed and produced 23 February 2024.

Israel took steps toward a possible strike against the Hamas group in Rafah, a Gaza Strip town overflowing with displaced people, despite UN fears of a massacre of Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Palestinian prime minister resigned and opened the door to a reform of the self-governing body that the U.S. hopes will take over Gaza after the war.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that Israel's planned military ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah would be the "death knell" for humanitarian aid programs in the Palestinian territory, shortly after the Israeli army announced "an evacuation plan for civilians."

The offensive against Hamas in Rafah "would not only be terrifying for the more than 1 million Palestinian civilian refugees there, but would mark the death knell for our aid programs," Guterres warned at the opening of the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip, next to the closed Egyptian border, is the only access for humanitarian aid, which remains "totally insufficient" for the territory, Guterres stressed.

Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip, next to the closed Egyptian border, is the only access for humanitarian aid, which remains "totally insufficient" for the territory, Guterres stressed.

Much of the international community, including the United States, Israel's main ally, is trying to dissuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering Rafah, where, according to the UN, some 1.5 million Palestinians, more than half of the Gaza Strip's population, almost all of them displaced by months of fighting and shelling, are crowded.

SHOTLIST:
1. various Israeli tanks on the border with the Gaza Strip;
2. various Israeli vehicles on the border with Gaza;
3. various Israeli tanks.