Israel orders Palestinian to evacuate from more areas of Gaza’s Rafah

JERUSALEM - Israel called on May 11 for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza's southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in a further indication that the military is pressing ahead with its plans for a ground attack on Rafah.

“They threw fliers on Rafah and said, from Rafah to Al-Zawayda is safe, people should evacuate there, and they did, and what has become of them? Dismembered bodies? There is no safe place in Gaza,” Ms Khitam Al-Khatib, who said she had lost at least 10 of her relatives in an air strike on a family house earlier on May 11, told Reuters.

An Israeli air strike killed at least seven people in a house in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip, all from the same family, medics said. The Israeli military said it was continuing precise operational activity against Hamas fighters in eastern Rafah and on the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing.Israel has said it will proceed with an incursion into Rafah, where more than 1 million displaced people have sought refuge during the seven-month-old war.

About 300,000 Gazans have so far moved towards Al-Mawasi, according to Israeli military estimates released on May 11.in which some 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

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