RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Israel's military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday (May 6), residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city
parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million people uprooted by the war have been sheltering.
Instructed by Arabic text messages, phone calls, and flyers to move to what the Israeli military called an"expanded humanitarian zone" 20km away, some Palestinian families began trundling away under chilly spring rain. People flee the eastern parts of Rafah after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2024.
"Forcing over a million displaced Palestinians from Rafah to evacuate without a safe destination is not only unlawful but would lead to catastrophic consequences," British charity ActionAid said. But an unnamed"high-level" source was quoted by Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera news TV as saying on Monday that talks had hit an impasse since Hamas attacked the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza on Sunday, killing four Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli broadcaster, Army Radio, said the evacuations were focused on a few peripheral districts of Rafah, from which people would be directed to tent cities in nearby Khan Younis and Al Muwassi.
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