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Israel on Saturday hit parts of Gaza including Rafah where it expanded an evacuation order, as the UN warned an outright invasion of the crowded city risked an “epic” disaster.
Israeli troops on Tuesday seized and closed the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing — through which all fuel passes into Gaza — after ordering residents of eastern Rafah to evacuate. While mediation efforts towards a truce and hostage release appeared to stall, Hamas’s armed wing said a hostage who appeared in a video it released earlier on Saturday had died from wounds suffered in an Israeli strike.
Military spokesman Daniel Hagari later said “we have eliminated dozens of terrorists in eastern Rafah”. The evacuation order on Saturday told residents to go to the “humanitarian zone” of Al-Mawasi, on the coast northwest of Rafah. Hamas in a statement said Israel’s “continued control” and closure of the Rafah crossing exacerbate the “humanitarian catastrophe” in the besieged territory.
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