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Rafah's field hospitals evacuated to the al-Mawasi area. [237] IDF tanks continued their probing attacks on 29 May, entering Tel al-Sultan, Yibna and Shaboura neighborhoods before withdrawing to the border with Egypt. Hamas and PIJ claimed to have clashed with the IDF, while also detonating explosives.
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.
In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi writes of Rafah's former importance in the early Arab period, saying it was "of old a flourishing town, with a market, and a mosque, and hostelries". However, he goes on to say that in its current state, Rafah was in ruins, but was an Ayyubid postal station on the road to Egypt after nearby Deir al-Balah ...
The Israeli military says the reason for so much destruction is that all of Rafah is honeycombed with Hamas tunnels, some of which sit on top of each other and some are more than 160 feet deep.The ...
Inside Rafah: Rare access shows Gaza's biggest safe zone is a ghost town Matt Bradley and Chantal Da Silva and Andrea Mitchell and Yarden Segev Updated July 8, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel’s ... Israel has ordered Palestinians to leave to Al-Mawasi, a coastal town near the city of Khan Younis, where an “expanded ...
Israel’s incursion into Rafah earlier in May marked a new phase in its war against Hamas in Gaza, which has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in the enclave ...
Save the Children described the situation in Rafah as "overwhelmingly catastrophic". [186] Continued Israeli airstrikes on residential homes in Rafah killed eleven people "from a single family" in one event, and four people, including a woman and child, in another. [187] Netanyahu stated Israel was "preparing to enter Rafah".