Palestinians living in tent camps and makeshift shelters in Rafah fear that Israel will soon launch a planned assault on the southern city
People ride in a cart pulled by a tractor past the rubble of a destroyed building and a mosque minaret in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 14.Israel faced growing international pressure on Wednesday to hold off on a planned assault on the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in southern
Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization representative for Gaza and the West Bank, said an assault on Rafah would be “an unfathomable catastrophe … and would even further expand the humanitarian disaster beyond imagination.” Israeli forces shelled eastern areas of Rafah overnight, and pounded several areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, residents said.
Many other people are believed to be buried under rubble of destroyed buildings across the densely populated Gaza Strip, much of which is in ruins. Supplies of food, water and other essentials are running out and diseases are spreading. In Wednesday’s clashes, Israel said it had carried out retaliatory strikes on Hezbollah targets after rocket attacks which it said had killed an Israeli woman, struck a military base and wounded several other people.
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