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forced to wait in a tent. i feel helpless, he says. the world is powerless to open the border. the hospitals here can no longer help me. just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israel s sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. israel insists its operation is limited. but new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s densely populated centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. translation: if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. i have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. last night, a rare warning from president biden an all out assault will have consequences. they go into rafah, i m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. for one former israeli prime minister, this is a significant moment the curr