The evacuation comes ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city.
JERUSALEM - Israel's armed forces have begun evacuating Palestinian civilians from Rafah, ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, an Israeli broadcaster said on May 6.
But with more than a million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah, the prospect of a high-casualty operation worries Western powers and neighbouring Egypt. Hamas negotiators are then due back in Cairo on May 7, said Al-Qahera News, a site linked to Egyptian intelligence services. Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34,683 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
Demonstrators, some carrying posters with images of the captives, gathered in Tel Aviv on May 5, as Israel marked national Holocaust Remembrance Day. Previous negotiation efforts had stalled in part because of Hamas’s demand for a lasting ceasefire and Mr Netanyahu’s vows to crush its remaining fighters in Rafah.
At the start of the war, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country would impose a “complete siege” blocking food, water and other supplies.Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip, after being dropped from an aircraft, as seen from Israel, on May 5. PHOTO: REUTERS
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