Israel’s plan to attack the Gazan city has raised fears over the potential harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there.
Rishi Sunak said he is “deeply concerned” about a possible Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, “given the number of civilians that are sheltering there”.
Israel had previously paused its plan to attack Rafah, which it says is the last significant Hamas stronghold, to allow for negotiations over the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas. The Israel Defence Forces said the temporary evacuation is “limited in scope” and “and not a wide-scale evacuation of Rafah”.
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said an Israeli military operation in Rafah “would be catastrophic”, while Lisa Nandy, shadow international development minister, said people there “have nowhere else to go”.
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