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UNRWA says over one million people have left Rafah
Palestinians leave the southern Gaza city of Rafah during an Israeli ground and air offensive in the city, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Over one million people have moved out of the southern Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says.
Some 1.4 million had been sheltering in the city during the war but began to leave after Israel urged them to evacuate ahead of an incursion into the city.
Israel defied widespread warnings from the international community not to go into the city, saying that it was necessary to destroy Hamas’s last remaining battalions and to seize control over the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, to prevent arms smuggling.
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