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Germany warns Israeli offensive on Rafah would be humanitarian catastrophe

Germany's foreign minister warned that an Israeli offensive on Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge, would be a humanitarian catastrophe,

"1.3 million people are waiting there in a very small space. They don't really have anywhere else to go right now ... If the Israeli army were to launch an offensive on Rafah under these conditions, it would be a humanitarian catastrophe," Annalena Baerbock said in a news conference during her visit to Israel.