Israel orders new evacuations in the Gaza city of Rafah, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military assault.
Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza's southern city of Rafah on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military operation closer to the heavily populated central area, in defiance of growing pressure from close ally the United States and others. Israel's military also said it was moving into an area of devastated northern Gaza where it asserted that the Hamas militant group has regrouped.
Some Palestinians are being sent to what Israel has called humanitarian safe zones along the Muwasi coastal strip in Gaza. But the zone is already packed with about 450,000 people in squalid conditions, with the garbage-strewn camp lacking basic facilities. Georgios Petropoulos, an official with the U.N. humanitarian agency in Rafah, said aid workers had no supplies to help people set up in new locations.
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