Israeli occupation army aircraft and artillery intensively bombed the residential neighborhoods of Rafah, crowded with displaced persons in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed to Bloomberg that he had instructed the Israeli army to prepare a plan to evacuate the city’s residents.
World leaders fear a massive humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah which houses more than a million displaced people who have no place to seek refuge. Israeli officials secretly acknowledge that they do not have a specific strategy for how to transfer 1,200,000 civilians from Rafah.