‘Carry your son and run’: Gaza families describe fleeing Rafah under Israeli fire

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 ‘Carry your son and run’: Gaza families describe fleeing Rafah under Israeli fire
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Displaced Palestinian families in southern Gaza have fled intensifying Israeli gunfire in the north Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere. They described a chaotic night as the sounds of fighting drew closer and prompted the difficult decision to evacuate.

Palestinians arrive in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after fleeing an Israel i ground and air offensive in the nearby city of Rafah on Friday, June 28, 2024. Palestinians arrive in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after fleeing an Israel i ground and air offensive in the nearby city of Rafah on Friday, June 28, 2024. Palestinians arrive in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after fleeing an Israel i ground and air offensive in the nearby city of Rafah on Friday, June 28, 2024.

The people fleeing Rafah are some of the last holdouts in a city that was once filled with displaced Palestinians. However, Israel’s ground invasion since early May has driven nearly everyone who sought shelter there to leave. The U.N. estimates 1.3 million people have been displaced out of Rafah — more than half of Gaza’s entire population.US shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflictto Gaza, and people there are now totally dependent on aid.

Ghada Qudeh, a Palestinian who took shelter in Rafah after fleeing the southern city of Khan Younis, said Israeli forces had fired missiles at a house where she and her family were sheltering Thursday. The initial Israeli operation into Rafah sent 1.3 million Palestinians fleeing, according to United Nations estimates. Israel says it needs to operate there to defeat Hamas’s remaining fighters in the area.

Family members at the funeral said Israeli strikes the seven people in an area between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. Witnesses to the strikes, also at the funeral, said they were in such a rush to flee that they had to walk over the bodies of dead and wounded. The rebels have targeted more than 60 vessels by firing missiles and drones in their campaign that has killed a total of four sailors. TheyThe Houthis maintain that their attacks target ships linked to Israel, the United States or Britain. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the Israel-Hamas war — including some bound for Iran.WASHINGTON — The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea this week as the U.S.

Reimer Veldhuis, a lawyer representing the Dutch state, told the court the Netherlands is abiding by the earlier order and cautioned that seeking to prevent more exports of F-35 parts to nations other than Israel could put at risk supplies to militaries around the world who operate the advanced fighter jets at a time of soaring international tensions.

On Thursday, some 30,000 people attended the Tribe of Nova’s first mass gathering since the Oct. 7 attack. The pier will be pulled as the U.S. is looking at alternative ways to get aid into Gaza, including potentially using an existing Israeli pier in nearby Ashdod as an alternative route, one of the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military planning.in operations after the pier broke apart and four U.S. Army vessels ran aground, injuring three service members, one critically.

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