War must not reach the south of the Gaza Strip, a UN relief agency warned during a visit from German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. “This conflict cannot come to Rafah on a large scale,” said Gemma Connell, head of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza. The comments were made at the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday. Baerbock was briefed about the situation in the war zone there as part of her Middle East trip. The demarcation line between Egypt and Gaza runs through the city of Rafah. Before the Gaza war, around 280,000 people lived in Rafah on the Palestinian…