Approximately 300,000 people have left Rafah as a result of what the Israeli military calls the “current temporary evacuation” of the city, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.
In a statement on Saturday, the IDF said that “so far, approximately 300,000 Gazans have advanced to the Humanitarian Area in Al-Mawasi,” which is on the coast north of Rafah. Al-Mawasi was already packed with displaced people before civilians in Rafah were ordered to move there.
The number of 300 thousand is double that estimated by the IDF on Thursday (9).
Questioned by CNN for clarification on the number, the IDF said it was “the beginning of the current temporary evacuation of the civilian population of Rafah”, indicating that it did not include people who may have moved in that direction before the operation in the east of the city, which began almost one week.
The United Nations and humanitarian groups estimate that somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 million people lived in the Rafah area before the Israeli operation began in the eastern part of the city. Satellite images examined by CNN showed that tent cities in several parts of Rafah were emptier than before.
Source: CNN Brasil
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