'Over 300,000 Gazans fled Rafah'
Business Standard|May 13, 2024
The main United Nations agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza said early Sunday that about 300,000 people had fled over the past week from Rafah, the city in the enclave's southernmost tip where more than a million displaced Gazans had sought shelter from Israeli bombardments elsewhere over the past seven months.
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'Over 300,000 Gazans fled Rafah'

The UN agency, known as UNRWA, made the announcement on social media hours after the Israeli government issued new evacuation orders in Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza, deepening fears that the Israeli military was preparing to invade the city despite international warnings. Paltel, the Gaza Strip's largest telecommunications company, said on Sunday that inter- the Israeli military's operation there evacuate to an "expanded humaninet service was down in parts of southern Gaza because of Israeli military operations and that crews area north of the city that the this month has already shut down. tarian area in Al-Mawasi," a coastal There has been intense bombardment and fighting around United Nations and international were working to restore services "as Rafah since Monday, when Israel officials have stressed is neither safe quickly as possible."

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