UNRWA says around 1 million people have fled Rafah in past 3 weeks
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[May 28, 2024]
DUBAI (Reuters) - Around one million people have fled the Gazan
city of Rafah in the past three weeks, the United Nations Palestinian
refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.
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Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart loaded with their belongings
as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in
the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled |
The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been
sheltering more than a million Palestinians who fled Israeli
assaults on other parts of the enclave.
Since early May, Israel's military has been carrying out what it
says is a limited operation in Rafah to kill fighters and
dismantle infrastructure used by Hamas, which runs Gaza. It has
told civilians to go to an "expanded humanitarian zone" some 20
km (12 miles) away.
Many Palestinians have complained they are vulnerable to Israeli
attacks wherever they go and have been moving up and down the
Gaza Strip in the past few months.
UNRWA said the flight from Rafah "happened with nowhere safe to
go and amidst bombardments, lack of food and water, piles of
waste and unsuitable living conditions."
Providing assistance and protection is becoming nearly
"impossible", the agency said.
(Reporting by Jana Choukeir; Editing by Michael Georgy and Peter
Graff)
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