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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Rafah

More than 100,000 flee Rafah as Israel steps up strikes, says UN

A Palestinian family on a truck with all their belongings seen from the back on a road with a shopping trolley and tents
Palestinians flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the city. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah after Israel intensified its bombardment, UN officials have said, in the largest movement of population in Gaza for many months.

Humanitarian officials are tracking the number of people fleeing Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, where more than 1 million people displaced from elsewhere in the territory have been sheltering.

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