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D. Parvaz

Rafah was supposed to offer refuge. Now, the city waits for a possible Israeli attack

A displaced Palestinian woman hangs laundry to dry outside a tent at a makeshift camp on the Egyptian border, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 14. (Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

TEL AVIV, Israel - Will Israel execute a major incursion into Rafah, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, or will Hamas and Israel agree to a cease-fire instead?

As of Wednesday, roughly 1.4 million Palestinians sheltering in cramped conditions in Rafah were bracing for the potential of an Israeli assault on the city, but hoping for a diplomatic breakthrough as negotiators from the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar were said to be meeting in Cairo for talks on a plan to pause the fighting.

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