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Friday, February 9, 2024
UN does not want forced mass displacement in Gaza’s Rafah

A Palestinian woman cries as she inspects a heavily damaged apartment following Israeli bombardment on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 8, 2024. (Said Khatib/AFP)
Civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip need to be protected, but the United Nations does not want to see any forced mass displacement, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had instructed the IDF to prepare plans to evacuate the southern Gaza city before the IDF begins operating there.