Palestinians fleeing Rafah as Israel expands its offensive

As Israel expands its offensive into Rafah, Palestinians fleeing from the southern city seek shelter in central areas of Gaza.

News Center- The Israel army ordered new evacuations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Saturday. According to the reports, the Israeli army conducted heavy bombardments overnight in the Jabaliya refugee camp and other areas in northern Gaza and Israeli warplanes and artillery also struck the Zeitoun area east of Gaza City.

At least 37 Palestinians, 24 of them from central Gaza areas, were killed in overnight airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

‘There is no safe place in Gaza’

Thousands attended the funerals held in Deir al-Balah on Saturday for victims of Israeli airstrikes. “They threw fliers on Rafah and said, from Rafah to al-Zawayda is safe, people should evacuate there, and they did, and what has become of them? Dismembered bodies? There is no safe place in Gaza," Khitam Al-Khatib, who said she had lost at least 10 of her relatives in an airstrike on a family house earlier on Saturday, told Reuters.