Residents and Hamas media say tanks advanced further west into the Shakoush neighborhood of Rafah, forcing thousands of displaced people there to leave their tent camps and head northward
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Residents and Hamas media said tanks advanced further west into the Shakoush neighborhood of Rafah, forcing thousands of displaced people there to leave their tent camps and head northward to the nearby Khan Younis.Since May 7, tanks have advanced in several districts of Rafah, and forces remained in control of the entire border line with Egypt and the Rafah crossing, the only gateway for most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people with the outside world.
“The situation there is very dangerous and many families are leaving towards Khan Younis, even from the Mawasi area as things became unsafe for them,” said the man, who moved northward overnight.triggered by the Hamas-led cross-border attack on October 7, the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to stage attacks on Israeli forces operating in areas over which the army said it had gained control months ago. The Palestinian groups sometimes still fire rockets into Israeli territory.
“My grandfather started screaming. He was telling us that there was a hit at our place. When I heard the word hit, I went to check the room in which I was sleeping,” he said. “I found that my mother and brother had been martyred.”Arab mediators’ efforts, backed by the United States, have so far failed to conclude a ceasefire.
In parallel, Israeli forces continued their new raid into the Shejaia neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip, into which tanks advanced on Thursday prompting heavy fighting with Hamas-led militants.
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