JERUSALEM: Israel has procured tens of thousands of tents for Palestinian civilians it intends to evacuate from Rafah in the coming weeks
Makeshift camps like this one have been thrown up in every available space around Rafah , which now houses most of the Gaza Strip's population of 2.4 million on the city it sees as the last bastion of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli sources said on Wednesday .Their fate worries Western powers as well as Cairo, which has ruled out any influx of refugees into the Egyptian Sinai.
Reuters could not verify this but received images from satellite company Maxar showing multiple tent camps on Khan Younis land that had been vacant on Apr 7.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel on Jan 7, 2024. Hamas killed 1,200 people and abducted 253 on Oct 7, according to Israeli tallies. Of those hostages, 129 remain in Gaza, Israeli officials say. More than 260 Israeli troops have been killed in ground fighting since Oct 20, the military says.Aya, 30, who has been living temporarily in the city with her family in a school, said she is considering leaving. But she is worried it would be too dangerous.
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