Palestinian civilians who were asked by the Israeli army to evacuate east of Rafah described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, while Israeli air strikes bombard the southernmost city of Gaza.
“We left because they distributed leaflets,” Muhammad Ghanem, a resident of eastern Rafah, told a CNN correspondent in the area on Monday. “(They) strike everywhere without distinguishing between children, adults, armed or unarmed. “I left my house that I had been building for 17 years.”
Ghanem and his wife were pushing children’s carts stacked with luggage. “We no longer have a home. We are heading to Mawasi because there is no safety with the Israelis. They are killing women and children,” he added.
Another woman from eastern Rafah said: “The Israelis sent us letters telling us to leave. We cannot stay.”
Earlier on Monday, the Israeli military called on an estimated 100,000 Palestinians living in parts of eastern Rafah to “immediately evacuate,” telling them to move to Al-Mawasi, a coastal town near the city of Khan Yunis, which aid groups say is unsuitable. For housing.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that the country’s war cabinet “unanimously decided” to continue the Rafah operation “to exert military pressure on Hamas.”
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