Israel-Hamas war: IDF tells civilians to leave Rafah suburbs

Israel-Hamas war: IDF tells civilians to leave Rafah suburbs
Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis, travel in cars, after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighbourhoods (Photo: Reuters)
The Israeli military told Palestinians to leave parts of Khan Younis and Rafah following reports of dozens of rockets being fired into southern Israel from the same region.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees had already left southern Gaza ahead of Israel's widely condemned operations in Rafah. More than 1 million people had sought shelter in the border city after Israel's offensive in the rest of the enclave.
The evacuation order was issued over social media and in an official statement.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said: "It just shows yet again, that no place is safe in Gaza, more efforts need to be made to protect civilians."
"It's another stop in this deadly circle of movement that the population in Gaza has to undergo on a regular basis," he said.
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