RAFAH: Israel on Saturday (May 11) 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. AFP jo
An early-morning Israeli strike on Rafah , the crowded southern Gaza city where Israel's military expanded an evacuation order covering the eastern area. RAFAH : 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
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. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34,971 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.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". "Where to? After Rafah there is expulsion, not displacement. This is the question that Palestinians ask, what next?" said journalist Nabil Diab. Palestinians inspect a house damaged in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. A US State Department report on Friday said it was"reasonable to assess" that Israel had violated norms on international law in its use of weapons from the United States, but did not find enough evidence to block shipments.if Israel went ahead with an all-out assault on Rafah, where the United Nations says 1.
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