Palestinians brace for Rafah assault, Israel promises evacuation
2024-02-12 08:22:27 source：CGTN
February 11, 2024
Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in Rafah on the Gaza border overnight, medics said on Saturday, as over a million Palestinians crammed into the city awaited a full-scale offensive with the rest of the enclave in ruins and nowhere left to run.
Four months into the conflict, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said it had ordered the military to develop a plan to evacuate Rafah and destroy four Hamas battalions it says are deployed there.
The Israeli military said the air force killed two Hamas operatives in Rafah on Saturday.
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