More than a million Palestinians displaced in Rafah, waiting for the imminent Israeli assault. "My children ask me where we will go", says Laila Abu Mustafa.

Aid agencies say any assault on the city will be catastrophic in a war that has already caused untold misery. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an evacuation plan for the civilians crowding Rafah. The war began on October 7, when the Hamas militant group, which controls Gaza, sent in fighters who killed 1,200 people.