Gaza's health authority appeals for international pressure to reopen access via the southern border to allow in aid, medical supplies and fuel to power generators and ambulances
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Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing again. Around half of Gaza’s population took sanctuary there after Israel ordered evacuations from northern Gaza in October. “We don’t know where to go. We have been displaced from one place to the next… We are running in the streets. I saw it with my own eyes. I saw the tank and the bulldozer. It is on that street,” said one woman, who did not give her name.
Hamas’ armed wing said because of Israeli bombardments it had lost contact with militants guarding four Israeli hostages, including US-Israeli citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who appeared in a video released by Hamas in late April. “People continue to leave Rafah … no place looks safe now and people do not want to escape at the last minute,” he told Reuters via a chat app.UNRWA, the main UN aid agency in Gaza, estimated that about 360,000 people had fled the southern city since the Israeli military gave its first evacuation order a week ago.
The assault on Rafah has caused one of the biggest splits in decades between Israel and its main ally the US, which paused some deliveries of weapons. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s office said on Monday he had briefed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the “precise operation” in the Rafah area.
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