Smoke billows from the Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt during an Israeli airstrike on October 10, 2023. Gaza's border crossing with Egypt, its only one that bypasses Israel, was hit by an Israeli air strike on October 10, 2023 for the second time in 24 hours, witnesses and a rights group said.
The powerful airstrikes Israel has used to pummel Hamas in response to a devastating surprise attack have rapidly forced more than 400,000 people to flee their homes in Gaza. But these displaced people can't leave the territory because the Egypt-controlled Rafah border crossing remains sealed.Smoke is seen billowing from Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt, following an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.
"Nobody can leave Gaza — nobody," said Bushra Khalidi, a policy lead with Oxfam, speaking with CBC News Network from the West Bank on Thursday.That leaves these stranded civilians trying to find a safe place inside Gaza, which is home to 2.3 million people and bordered by Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.
Egypt has been trying to convince Israel and the United States to allow aid and fuel through the crossing. He also pointed out that Egypt already hosts some nine million refugees. That population swelled this year as 300,000 Sudanese fled their country's war into Egypt, which was already facing economic crisis.
Sean Carroll, the president and CEO of aid group Anera, said Thursday that there's no telling how long people will be living like this and they're going to need to be supplied with food, water and medicine.Israeli airstrikes have levelled residential buildings and neighbourhoods in Gaza. The Israeli military has indicated it is using intelligence to target locations being used by Hamas and says that civilians were warned.
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