300,000 Palestinians leave Rafah: UN
Last Updated on May 14, 2024 8:54 am
Israel’s attacks have already reduced most of the Palestinian Gaza Strip to rubble. All that was left was the city of Rafah in this block of land. Israel has already intensified the attack in this southern city of Gaza.
Because of this, 300,000 people have already fled the city. The United Nations has brought forward this information. These people took refuge here from other parts of Gaza due to the Israeli occupation. News New York Times.
Nearly 300,000 people have fled Rafah in the past week, the main UN aid agency for Palestinians in Gaza said on Sunday. The city, on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, has become a haven for more than a million displaced people over the past seven months, fleeing Israeli aggression.
The UN agency, known as UNRWA, made the announcement on social media hours after the Israeli government issued new evacuation orders to other areas of Rafah and Gaza.
Fears have deepened in recent days as the Israeli military prepares to attack the city despite international warnings.
The international community, including the United States, has been opposing major attacks on Rafah, which has basically become a refuge for millions of Palestinians.
The World Food Program echoed those warnings on Sunday, while also expressing concern about civilian displacement and saying a full-scale attack on Rafah would be “catastrophic”.
“Rapha families are on the move again — looking for shelter, food, water,” the organization wrote on social media.
Paltel, the Gaza Strip’s largest telecommunications company, said on Sunday that internet service was down in parts of southern Gaza due to Israeli military operations and that crews were working to restore services “as soon as possible”.
Workers from the international charity Doctors Without Borders are working in Gaza during the war. The agency also said on social media that it has started referring the last 22 patients at the Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital to other medical facilities.