Highlights: In Rafah, the intensification of Israeli strikes raises fears of a ground intervention. The Israeli army is bombing the Rafah sector, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, this Saturday, February 10. Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to prepare an “evacuation plan” for hundreds of thousands of civilians there. Israel is targeting a ground operation in Rafah as part of its military offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. According to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, released this Friday, February 9, 27,947 people have been killed in Gaza.

The Israeli army is bombing the Rafah sector, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, this Saturday, February 10, with Benjamin Netanyahu having ordered the military to prepare an “evacuation plan” for hundreds…

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[Live] In Rafah, the intensification of Israeli strikes raises fears of a ground intervention

The Israeli army is bombing the Rafah sector this Saturday, February 10, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu having ordered the military to prepare an “evacuation plan” for hundreds of thousands of civilians there before a possible land offensive.

A view of the city of Rafah bombed by the Israeli army on February 9, 2024. AFP - SAID KHATIB

By: Internet Editorial

What you must remember

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Israeli forces have intensified bombings in neighborhoods of Rafah

, deemed excessive by the United States which fears a humanitarian “

disaster

”. Early this Saturday, witnesses reported strikes in the vicinity of this city now populated by approximately 1.3 million Palestinians, more than half of the population of the Gaza Strip, the vast majority were people who have taken refuge there to escape the violence further north.

■ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the army to develop a plan to

evacuate civilians from Rafah

, where he plans to

launch a "

massive operation
"

and defeat the last Hamas battalions. After Gaza City, then Khan Younes, Israel is now targeting a ground operation in this city adjoining Egypt, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, as part of its military offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

■ According to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, released this Friday, February 9,

27,947 people have been killed in Gaza

since the start of the war on October 7, 2023. It reported a total of 107 deaths in the last 24 hours. The victims are mostly women, adolescents and children. There are also

67,317 injured

Times are given in universal time (UT, i.e. Paris time -1),

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5:30 a.m.: New Israeli strikes in the area of Rafah this Saturday morning

Early this Saturday, witnesses reported strikes in the vicinity of Rafah, a city now populated by approximately 1.3 million Palestinians, more than half of the population of the Gaza Strip, the vast majority were people who have taken refuge there to escape the violence further north. The Hamas Minister of Health counted 110 dead in the evening and night, including 25 in strikes in Rafah, and reported “

intense fighting

” on Saturday in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes. On Friday, Israeli forces stormed the city's other major hospital, al-Amal.

[Live] In Rafah, the intensification of Israeli strikes raises fears of a ground intervention

[Live] In Rafah, the intensification of Israeli strikes raises fears of a ground intervention

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