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Yet Rafah continued to shadow the relationship, as Israeli officials insisted on the necessity of going after Hamas in the city, even as Biden aides said they hadn’t seen a plan to protect ...
Rafah's field hospitals evacuated to the al-Mawasi area. [238] 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.
The more surgical approach could be paired with efforts to better secure the Egypt-Gaza border — where Rafah sits — to curb Hamas’s ability to smuggle weapons into the enclave.
Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, is bursting at the seams. Nearly the last place spared an Israeli offensive so far, Rafah's population has more than quintupled with Palestinians streaming in to ...
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 world’s gaze is on Rafah, the once-sleepy town along the Egyptian border that is likely Israel’s next focus in its fight against Hamas. Rafah has swelled in size in recent weeks.
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".
After a meeting of the U.N. Security Council closed doors on Tuesday over the latest developments in Rafah, Algeria's U.N. Ambassador Amar Bendjama said the country would propose a draft council ...