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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
[112] [113] With other cities in Gaza depopulated, Rafah became the most populous city in the Palestinian territories, with more than 1.4 million people. [114] Due to the large number of children among those displaced peoples, UNICEF termed Rafah "a city of children".
The U.N. estimates that around 50,000 remain in Rafah, which had a pre-war population of about 275,000. Most have moved to a nearby Israel-declared “humanitarian area” where conditions are grave.
Displaced Palestinians travel on a cart in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on May 7, 2024. Credit - AFP—Getty Images. W hen Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah this week ...
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.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza's more than 2 million people. Today it is a dust-covered ghost town. Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows.
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".