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Israel initially planned to launch a two division sweep across the city, but U.S. President Joe Biden considered a major attack into Rafah a "red line" that could not be crossed. This forced Israel to reduce the operation to capturing the border to seal off arms smuggling into Gaza, and rely on targeted raids into Rafah.
Before the Rafah offensive, Israel conducted airstrikes and threatened to invade the city as part of its invasion of the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war which began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Intentions to invade were declared in February, meeting backlash from the international community because of the ...
On 12 February 2024, Israel Defense Forces launched an assault on Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, killing over 83 people. [1] [2] The airstrikes destroyed at least one mosque and multiple inhabited homes, killing most or all of their occupants.
The war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and dragging some 250 hostages back to Gaza. ISRAELI STRIKES ON RAFAH KILL AT LEAST 5
The U.N. says northern Gaza is already in a state of “full-blown famine.” Israel says Rafah is the last stronghold of Hamas and that the army must go in if it hopes to dismantle the group and ...
Israel’s plan to attack the Gazan city has raised fears over the potential harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. Israeli offensive in Rafah 'must not go ahead', Sir ...
Sometimes referred to as the Rafah tent massacre or as the Tent Massacre, (Arabic: مجزرة الخيم, romanized: Majzarat al-khiyam) it was the deadliest incident of the Rafah offensive. When Israel invaded Rafah and ordered the evacuation of its east, some citizens fled to other parts of the city, like Tel al-Sultan, seeking safety.
Glia said that Israel revoked a ban on its medical teams entering Gaza. [457] The IDF announced a new division for operating on the border with Jordan. [458] A Hezbollah drone attack injured two people in Hadera. [459] The Lebanese Health Ministry announced that Israeli strikes killed 19 people, including eight women, in two towns in Baalbek ...