Israel prepares a strike, evacuates Rafah. Hamas rejects a ceasefire, the minister said

According to ToI, the army is urging civilians to move to the humanitarian zone on the border and to the area of ​​nearby Chen Jnis. Haaretz said that the details of the evacuation are available to international and Palestinian humanitarian organizations. The Israeli army claims that about 100,000 people must be evacuated from Rafah as part of a limited-scale evacuation, but has not confirmed that it is a seizure or an invasion of the city.

High representative Hamsu Sm ab Zuhr told the Reuters agency that the Israeli order to evacuate Rafah is a dangerous escalation that will have consequences.

The Israeli Air Force began shooting down squadrons urging civilians and refugees to leave the area and not approach the borders with Israel or Egypt. Some Palestinian families began to leave eastern Rafah, residents of the city told Reuters. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned of the devastating consequences of the Rafah offensive, including further civilian suffering and death. The agency said it is not evacuating and will remain in Rafah as long as possible to continue providing vital aid.

Several months ago, there was talk of the widespread operation of the Israeli army in Rafah, where over a million people fled from it before the fighting in other parts of the Gaza Strip. The international community and many countries, including the United States, are urging Israel not to launch an offensive against Hamas militants in the area until the civilians are safe.

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In Friday, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote that Israel gave the Palestinian movement Hamas, which it has been leading since January in the Gaza Strip, a week to accept an agreement on peace and the release of Israeli hostages. If he does not do so, the Israeli army will launch a ground operation in the Rafah area.

The army has been bombarding this place for a long time, and not as intensively as the other parts of the Gaza Strip. Last Sunday, according to AFP, two Israeli streams killed 16 people from two families there.

On Sunday, Galant said that Israel will launch military operations in Rafah and other hundreds of Gaza Strips in the very near future. In this way, he reacted to the flow of rockets on the Kerem Alom march, which was approached by Hamas and the Israeli soldiers landed near it.

f Israeli diplomacy Yisrael Kac stated on social media X that Israel agreed to significant steps during the negotiations, but Hamas repeatedly rejected them. Kad wants that Yahj Sinvr (the teacher of Hamsu in the Book of Gaza) does not have in mind to release all the hostages, and not even for all of them, Kac added.

On Monday, he said that the Israeli military operation was necessary because Hamas refused to mediate proposals for a peace deal in the Gaza Strip, according to which he would release some hostages. As a reason, the minister introduced the first stream to the Kerem Alom walk.

Denk Haaretz on Monday said that the activity of the Israeli army in the Rafah area may be just a maneuver to pressure Hamas to agree to the peace deal. If there was progress in the negotiations, Israel could stop the military operation in Rafah, Haaretz wrote today.

Talks between Hams and Israel are mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States. On the weekend, representatives of Hamsu discussed in Khie, where, among others, William Burns of the American Central Intelligence Service (CIA) was present. He then flew to Qatar, from where he was supposed to fly to Israel.