Israel's military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence official said on Wednesday, despite international warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Israel has procured tens of thousands of tents for Palestinian civilians it intends to evacuate from Rafah in the coming weeks ahead a promised assault on the city it sees as the last bastion of Hamas in the Gaza Strip,
Israel is giving increasing signs that it's going to invade Rafah, a Gaza Strip city full of displaced Palestinians but also home to a network of Hamas tunnels.
Israel has begun preparations to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of a long-expected assault on the city in southern Gaza where the bulk of Hamas’s remaining forces and more than 1mn displaced people are concentrated.
Bilahari Kausikan, chairman at the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute, says "the Americans have made it clear many times, several times, that there is a limit to their patience,
Top Israeli intelligence and military officials met Wednesday in Cairo with Egypt's intelligence chief and other key officials to discuss a possible Israel Defense Forces operation in Rafah, three senior Israeli officials told Axios.
As part of MapLab’s ongoing collaboration with Bloomberg Graphics, this week graphics team leader Alex Newman writes about the recent story she edited on how airstrikes and refugees have reshaped Rafah.
Still, Rafah is key. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Victory requires entry into Rafah and the elimination of the terrorist battalions there.” Unfortunately, some in the Biden administration have pressured Israel not to go into Rafah.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday rejected the displacement of Palestinians from the neighbouring Gaza Strip as Israel prepares for an impending military operation in Rafah. Cairo is worried that a planned push into the southern border city of Rafah,
An Israeli media report says tens of thousands of people have left Rafah, ahead of a looming Israeli offensive. Some 150,000 to 200,000 Palestinian civilians have left Rafah since April 7, the Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday,
Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of comparative calm, and Israel said it was moving forward with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah in the south.
Wednesday’s announcement came as Israel prepared for a ground invasion of Rafah, the southern Gaza city that Israel says is Hamas’ last major stronghold.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday reiterated his country’s firm stance against the displacement of Palestinians from the neighbouring Gaza Strip as Israel prepares for an impending military operation in Rafah.
In response to Israel's vow to expand its ground offensive to the southern Gaza city of Rafah, residents and refugees consider whether they will attempt to flee.
Palestinians on Thursday mourned over people killed in Israeli bombardment of Rafah, the southern Gaza city where Israel says it is advancing plans for a ground invasion.Global concern has mounted over the looming operation against Hamas militants in Rafah,
Israel's impending military operation in Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza, is to begin with an evacuation of civilians that could last up to five weeks, Israel's Kan radio reported on Thursday.
Israel said Wednesday it is "moving ahead" with its planned operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite international outcry over fears for the 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering there. Red Cross official Fabrizio Carboni said humanitarian groups had no knowledge of reported plans to move Rafah's residents away from the city ahead of the assault.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have mobilized two additional reserve brigades ahead of a possible deployment to the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Wednesday. The brigades had previously been deployed on Israel's border with Lebanon.