About 800,000 in the Gaza border town of Rafah are displaced by Israel’s military operations, the UN says.
Fierce fighting between terrorist-branded Hamas and Israeli forces rages on several fronts in the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA, which is the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, estimated on Saturday that 800,000 residents or refugees in the border town of Rafah in Gaza have been forced to flee since the Israeli army began a major military operation against the city, writes AFP.
“Nearly half of Rafah’s population . . . are on the move since they were forced to flee after Israeli forces launched a military operation in the region on May 6,” writes Unrwa head Philippe Lazzarini on the X social platform.
Fighting rages at the same time both in Rafah and in other places between Israeli soldiers and Hamas.
Israel’s army, the IDF, said on Saturday that more than 70 targets were attacked in airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, and that ground forces carried out “targeted raids” in eastern Rafah. The IDF stated that 50 armed Hamas members have been killed.
Hamas’s armed branch, the al-Qassam Brigades, says in turn that it fired robots at the Israeli city of Ashkelon and at an Israeli military stronghold in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to AFP’s correspondent on the ground.