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Homes and a vehicle were hit in the southern Gazan city where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled since the war began. Now, Israel’s stated intention to expand its ground invasion into Rafah has left her terrified, with no idea where she and her family could flee. More than half of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now sheltering in Rafah, many of them after Israel told them to flee south to avoid the war farther north. Everything else is very expensive.”He feared that many would die if Israel invaded Rafah, especially since people had nowhere else to go. She fled to Rafah from Gaza City, where both her home and her clinic have since been destroyed, giving her little to return to, she said.
Persons: Ahlam Shimali, Israel’s, , Shimali, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden, Khan Younis, Fathi Abu Snema, , Sana, Iyad, Abu Bakr Bashir Organizations: Aid, United Nations Locations: Gazan, Gaza, Rafah, , Israel, Egypt, Gaza City
Israel-Hamas War: Latest Updates
  + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Ben Hubbard | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Palestinians on the move after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Friday. As the war has raged, Ahlam Shimali has watched as people have fled fighting and destruction elsewhere in Gaza and packed into Rafah, the territory’s southernmost district, where she lives. “What would happen to us if there were tanks, clashes, an invasion and an army?” said Ms. Shimali, 31. More than half of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now sheltering in Rafah, many of them after Israel told them to flee south to avoid the war farther north. She fled to Rafah from Gaza City, where both her home and her clinic have since been destroyed, giving her little to return to, she said.
Persons: Ahlam Shimali, Israel’s, , Shimali, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden, Khan Younis, Fathi Abu Snema, , Sana, Iyad, Abu Bakr Bashir Organizations: Aid, United Nations Locations: Rafah, Gaza, , Israel, Egypt, Gaza City
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