The Israeli military on Monday ordered tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate, a move indicating Israel's offensive on Gaza's southmost area could be imminent.
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings following an evacuation order by the Israeli army on Monday amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military on Monday ordered tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate, a move indicating Israel's offensive on Gaza's southmost area could be imminent.
On Sunday, as a Hamas delegation was still in Egypt hammering out the deal being offered by Israel, Israel's government announced the closure of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also issued a statement saying it was Hamas that blocked a deal to release hostages, saying he gave Israel's negotiating team a very broad mandate although no Israeli negotiators were sent to Cairo over the weekend.
Hours later, Hamas launched rockets from Rafah into Israel, killing four Israeli troops. Israel launched air strikes on Rafah, killing a number of civilians. Air strikes Sunday night into Monday killed at least 26 people in eight homes in Rafah, among them 11 children and eight women, according to Gaza's health ministry, which said there are still bodies under the rubble not in the death count. Israel closed its border there with southern Gaza, where humanitarian aid had been entering.
An elderly woman named Fatima Balah at a U.N.-run school in Rafah that was forced to evacuate told NPR Monday morning she's been displaced four times this war, and this will be her fifth time to move. She says she's seen nothing but hardship these past seven months of the war. She and her husband are ill, and she says she struggles to walk.
"The aid system is bound to collapse, leaving those fleeing the advancing Israeli forces vulnerable to hunger and suffering," the NRC's Secretary General Jan Egeland said."We urgently call on Hamas and Israel to agree to a deal that can end the bloodshed and avert further hostilities."
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