Plumes of smoke rising behind buildings seen from Muwasi in direction of East Rafah

(6 May 2024)
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Muwasi, Gaza - 6 May 2024
1. Various of smoke plumes rising behind buildings seen from Muwasi in direction of East Rafah
STORYLINE:
Smoke could be seen rising from Rafah Monday afternoon, although the cause was unclear.

Israel has carried out numerous airstrikes in Rafah in recent weeks.

This came after the Israeli army ordered tens of thousands of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to begin evacuating, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion could be imminent.

An army spokesman, said some 100,000 people were being ordered to move to a nearby Israel-declared humanitarian zone called Muwasi.

In Rafah, people received flyers Monday morning in Arabic detailing which neighborhood blocks needed to leave and where humanitarian zones had expanded to.

The flyers said that aid services would spread from Deir al Balah in the north to the center of Khan Younis city in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians in Rafah said people gathered to discuss their options after receiving the flyers.

Most said they did not want to move alone and preferred to travel in groups.

Israel has described Rafah as the last significant Hamas stronghold after seven months of war, and its leaders have repeatedly said they need to carry out a ground invasion to defeat the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Israel's plan to invade Rafah has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there.

About 1.4 million Palestinians — more than half of Gaza’s population — are jammed into the town and its surroundings.

AP video by Zakaria Abu Jobain

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