Almost 450,000 People Have Fled Rafah In A Week, UN Says

The UN says almost 450,000 Palestinians have fled from Rafah over the past week as Israeli tanks push deeper into the southern Gaza city.

Israel’s military says it is continuing operations against what it calls  terror targets, in the east of the city, where more than a million people had been sheltering.

Additionally, new Israeli operations in northern Gaza have displaced another 100,000 people, as its forces go back into the areas of Zeitoun and Jabalia, where the military says Hamas has regrouped only five months after it claimed to have dismantled the group’s local battalions.

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Israel launched a military campaign which it says is targeted at Hamas in response to the group’s cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7th October last year, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 252 others were taken hostage.

According to the health ministry in Gaza, more than 35,170 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 82 in the past 24 hours.