Rights Watch: Israel's plans to evacuate Rafah are "disastrous and illegal" Human Rights Watch said that forcing more than a million displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate again, without a safe place to shelter, is “illegal and will have catastrophic consequences” This comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army and other officials to submit a plan to evacuate the Rafah Governorate, in the far south of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu said that this measure is necessary to attack Hamas brigades in the region.