The Israel Defense Forces say that evacuation of residents and displaced people in eastern Rafah is "not a wide-scale evacuation of Rafah this is a limited-scale operation in the area of Eastern Rafah."
Colonel Nadav Shoshani, IDF's international spokesperson, said in a press briefing Monday they were "calling on people of Eastern Rafah to move north."
When asked about how long residents would have to leave, Shoshani said,"People have days at least to move," he said when asked about how long residents would have to leave.
Shoshani would not be drawn about whether this evacuation was linked to an attack on IDF soldiers yesterday.
"I don't want to go into specific of our operational ideas and plans and timing," he said.
Persons:
Nadav Shoshani, Shoshani, Yoav Galant, Jens Laerke
Organizations:
Israel Defense Forces, CNN, Israeli, United Nations Office, Humanitarian
Locations:
Rafah, Eastern Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Geneva