Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Rafah after the Israel Defense Forces ordered evacuations ahead of a ground offensive. Follow live updates.
the southern Gazan city of Rafah ahead of an Israeli ground offensive, the UN says. The main UN agency in Gaza, UNRWA, said the “forced and inhumane displacement of Palestinians continues.”against an Israeli invasion of Rafah, predicting that a major ground offensive in the southern Gaza city would lead to widespread civilian casualties.
Despite American warnings dating back months about the wisdom of a ground invasion into Rafah, Israel appears poised to continue advancing on the city and has issued evacuation orders for some of the 1.4 million civilians estimated to be sheltering there. Maher Soliman, also living at the Shaboura refugee camp, said he didn’t know where to go: “No-one is supporting us. It’s just destruction. I left home with a T-shirt.” Soliman said there was no safe zone. “My 15-year-old daughter had burns over her body. There was a strike on the building next door while she was making food.”
The woman said it was tense last night. “Even the water distribution guy is afraid to come by. People are afraid to leave the tents at night to relieve themselves because they are afraid of the quadcaptors … All of us have hepatitis. There are lot of infections among people.” The IDF said that in Rafah, troops had “located and dismantled a number of tunnel shafts and rocket launchers ready to fire toward Israeli territory.”The military action in Rafah comes ahead of a planned full-scale invasion.
Bar-Sheshet was injured on the same day that five Israeli soldiers were killed in the Zeitoun area of Gaza. Four of the five were 19-year old sergeants who were killed by an explosive device.The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that the number of people killed in the Strip as a result of Israeli military operations has risen above 35,000.A further 114 people were injured, bringing the total of injured since October 7 to 78,755 people, according to the Ministry.
One man in Jabalya, Abu Muhammed Odeh, told CNN: “I don’t know where people should go, they tell people to go western Gaza which is Al Shifa hospital and Al Sinaa area, and those areas were all destroyed by the Israelis before.” He described the dangerous situation in the area, saying, “there is no safe place,” adding: “Whenever we go, there is bombardment.”Another man described Friday night as “horrible” and “intense” due to ongoing strikes.
“How much more suffering can one take? I turn to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu: It is time that you bring them all back! The living for rehabilitation and the fallen for a respectful, appropriate Jewish burial,” she added. Lazzarini added: “Since the war began, most people in Gaza have moved multiple times: on average once a month. They desperately sought safety that they never found. Some have no choice but to stay in bombed out @UNRWA shelters. The claim of ‘safe zones’ is false and misleading. No place is safe in #Gaza. Period.”
“We demand that the United Nations and humanitarian groups immediately intervene to allow the entry of necessary rescue equipment so we can continue our work, retrieve the missing from under the rubble and provide the required fuel to operate the civil defense vehicles,” Bassal said. According to a readout of the meeting from representatives for the families, they “expressed their immense frustration with yet another pause, especially after recent hostage videos showed their loved ones disabled, thin, pale, and under apparent duress” to the Biden administration officials.
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