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☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Rafah airstrikes, Gaza ceasefire deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Palestinians flee from Rafah, Gaza Strip, on May 6. Ramadan Abed/ReutersPalestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city. “We left because they distributed leaflets,” Mohammed Ghanem, a resident in eastern Rafah told a CNN stringer in the area on Monday. Another woman from eastern Rafah said, “The Israelis sent us messages ordering us to leave. In a statement, the office of Israel’s prime minister said the country’s war cabinet had “unanimously decided” to continue with the Rafah operation “to exert military pressure on Hamas.”Read the full story.

Persons: Ramadan Abed, ” Mohammed Ghanem, “, ” Ghanem, ”, Khan Younis Organizations: CNN Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, “, Mawasi

☆ Palestinians fleeing Rafah describe their fear and despair: ‘I am leaving for the unknown’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city. “We left because they distributed leaflets,” Mohammed Ghanem, a resident in eastern Rafah told a CNN stringer in the area on Monday. They are killing women and children.”Another woman from eastern Rafah said, “The Israelis sent us messages ordering us to leave. It is not only my feeling, it is everyone’s feeling.”Many of those leaving eastern Rafah have been previously displaced multiple times as Israel’s focus moved from city to city. A woman called Maha said Palestinian civilians were at the mercy of the Israeli military.

Persons: ” Mohammed Ghanem, “, ”, Ghanem, Khan Younis, Ramadan Abed, Volker Türk, Faisal Barbakh, Malek, Yousef, ’, Mohammad Abu Khamash, It’s, ” Scott Anderson, Jan Egeland, Ahmad Safi, Safi, Abu Salah, Maha Organizations: CNN, Reuters, United Nations, Norwegian Refugee Council, Israel Defense Forces, Frontieres, ” MSF, UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, UN, Palestinian Civil Defense Locations: Rafah, Israel, “, Mawasi, Gazan, Rafah’s, Gaza, ”, Israeli, Palestinian

CNN —Thousands of Palestinians, including men, women, children and elderly, attempted to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday when they came under Israeli fire. Some people told CNN they heard the Israeli military was allowing women and children to move back up. We have been displaced for 191 days,” Malak Abu Nada, a woman from Jabalya, told CNN. Her mother Sabreen told CNN her daughter was in her arms when Israeli soldiers shot at her. That’s when Israeli soldiers fired at them, she said.

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