Since May 6, the Israeli military has ordered residents of several neighborhoods east of Rafah to evacuate, before launching shelling and “targeted operations” on the ground to eliminate the last Hamas battalions there, according to the military.
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, announced on Saturday that 800,000 people have left Rafah since May 6 following evacuation orders from the Israeli army before it began ground operations at the site in the southern part of the Strip. of Gaza.
In Rafah, “800,000 people (…) have been forced to flee since the Israeli forces started the military operation in the area on May 6,” said Filipe Lazzarini, head of Unrwa, on the social networking platform X.
“In response to evacuation orders asking residents to flee to the so-called safe areas, they mostly went to the areas of the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis (in the south, sb) even inside damaged buildings,” he adds.
Since May 6, the Israeli military has ordered residents of several neighborhoods east of Rafah to evacuate, before launching shelling and “targeted operations” on the ground to eliminate the last Hamas battalions there, according to the military.
According to the UN, a million Gazans who fled the fighting and shelling went to join the people of Rafah, who gathered in this city next to the Egyptian border, that is a total of 1.4 million people.
Since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, which was triggered after Hamas attacks on Israeli territory, “Palestinians have been forced to flee many times in search of a safe place that they never found, not even in the Unwra shelters,” affirms Philip Lazzarini on platform X.
“The claim that Gazans can go to ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian’ areas is false. There are no safe areas in Gaza,” Lazzarini states.
“The areas where people are fleeing today have no drinking water, no sanitation,” he adds.
The ground operation in Rafah, announced months ago by Israel, provoked a strong reaction from the international community amid fears of a massacre of civilians.
On Saturday night, the Israeli army also ordered the population of some neighborhoods of Gaza City, in the northern part of the narrow Palestinian territory, to “immediately evacuate to shelters in the western part of the city” of Gaza, which has become the scene of heavy clashes in recent hours. conflicts.
Source :Skai
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