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Israel Gaza live updates: Israeli military tells 100,000 people to leave parts of Rafah - BBC News Israel Gaza live updates: Israeli military tells 100,000 people to leave parts of Rafah - BBC News
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has been dropping flyers in the eastern area of Rafah calling on civilians to evacuate ahead of a planned operation in the city.
Following on from those comments from the office of Israel's defence minister, let's take a look back at recent remarks from the country's prime minister about a Rafah offensive. There are two different versions - red and blue.
Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel would launch an invasion of the southern Gaza city regardless of truce talks with Hamas, saying that he would do this "with or without" a ceasefire deal. In the red version, the IDF tells residents of specific areas in Rafah where their forces "will be operating", and warns "anyone found near terrorist organisations endangers themselves and their family members".
"The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question," he said. It urges citizens to move to the "humanitarian area" in al-Mawasi, and to avoid heading north of Wadi Gaza, or nearing the eastern and southern security fences.
"We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory," according to a statement issued by Netanyahu's office. The blue version, meanwhile, announces the expansion of the zone where it says "humanitarian aid will continue".
More than half of Gaza's 2.5m population is in Rafah, having fled there to escape fighting in other parts of the territory. Conditions in the overcrowded city are dire, and displaced people there have spoken of a lack of food, water and medication.
The US, along with the UN, have voiced their opposition to an invasion of Rafah.
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