Caught between two land borders — with Israel and Egypt — and Mediterranean Sea, Palestinians of southern Gaza are now heading back north after Tel Aviv's ultimatum for tens of thousands of people to flee Rafah's east.
Caught between two land borders — with Israel and Egypt — and Mediterranean Sea, Palestinians of southern Gaza are now heading back north after Tel Aviv's ultimatum for tens of thousands of people to flee Rafah's east.Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee to Deir al-Balah after Israeli military enters eastern portion of Rafah. / Photo: AA
"The streets are empty of people, and markets are in a state of paralysis", he told the AFP news agency. Many in Rafah have been displaced multiple times during the seven-month war, and are now heading back north after Israeli occupation forces issued an ultimatum for tens of thousands of people to flee the city's eastern past.
"We emerged from under the rubble of our house in Al-Bureij, and now due to intense shelling in Rafah, my children and I are in the street", she said."We don't know where to go. There is no safe place", Arouqi added.While it is relatively calmer than the city's heavily bombarded east, the west has also been hit by Israel shelling, an AFP journalist reported.
Himself displaced from Gaza City, he described"people carrying their things, mattresses, blankets, kitchen items on trucks" to flee east Rafah.The city's Al-Najjar Hospital was"closed, evacuated by the medical team to avoid what happened in Al-Shifa or Nasser", he added, referring to two other Gaza medical facilities raided by Israeli troops during the course of the war.
Originally from Gaza City, he was first displaced to Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, and then ordered to leave when Israeli troops entered the nearby Al-Bureij camp.
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