The UN estimates that nearly 79,000 people have fled Rafah since Monday
The UN’s main aid agency in Gaza (UNRWA) estimates that nearly 79,000 people have left the southern city of Rafah since Monday as Israel’s offensive on the city expanded.
“Rafah today: now a daily scene of forcibly displaced families fleeing the area,” the agency’s communications officer Louise Wateridge told X on Thursday.
Wateridge said there was “extreme fear of significant shelling in Rafah overnight and continuing throughout this morning.”
Some context: Palestinians in the eastern part of Rafah were told to evacuate on Monday by the Israeli army as it launched an offensive in the city. Israel’s assault on Rafah has since expanded from airstrikes to ground operations, satellite images obtained by CNN from Planet Labs show.