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Adel Zaanoun with Mark Anderson in Jerusalem, Mai Yaghi with Didier Lauras in Jerusalem

Deadly Strikes Hit 'Pressure Cooker' Rafah Ahead Of Gaza Truce Push

Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point in the city of Rafah, where half of the Gaza Strip's population is now living (Credit: AFP)

Deadly strikes were reported early Saturday in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah -- dubbed a "pressure cooker of despair" by the UN -- as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative truce deal between Israel and Hamas.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled south to Rafah since the outbreak of the war, with the former city of 200,000 now housing more than half of Gaza's two million-plus population, a WHO representative said Friday.

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