Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. AP
Around 450,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza's south over the past week, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. Roughly 1.3 million people were sheltering in Rafah before Israel began pushing into the city.
Israeli forces are facing resistance in northern Gaza, where the army had launched major operations earlier in the war. The occupation army's evacuation orders issued Saturday have displaced around 100,000 people so far, U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters Monday.
Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 12 people overnight and into Tuesday.
No food has entered the two main border crossings in southern Gaza for the past week. Some 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza face catastrophic levels of hunger, are on the brink of starvation, and a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north, according to the U.N.
Seven months of Israeli bombardment and ground operations in Gaza have killed at least 35,173 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to health officials.
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