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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
UNRWA says more than 450,000 Gazans have left Rafah in recent days
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People evacuate Rafah, bound for Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 11, 2024. (AFP)
The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees says that around 450,000 Palestinians have left Rafah in the past week, as the IDF has escalated its operations in the southernmost Gazan city.
There were an estimated 1.3 million people sheltering in Rafah before Israel began pushing into the city, which Israel says is the last Hamas stronghold.
The IDF dropped leaflets early last week in eastern Rafah with instructions on the zones that need to be evacuated and which routes to take to a designated humanitarian zone. Earlier today, residents said that Israeli tanks had pushed further into the eastern portion of the city.
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