Israel’s military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million people uprooted by the war have been sheltering.
Please enable JavaScript to view this content. Open this photo in gallery: Smoke billows after an Israeli bomb in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Displaced Palestinians who left with their belongings from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: People flee the eastern parts of Rafah after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a house destroyed in Rafah. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: A displaced Palestinian boy looks out a tent in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as people prepare to leave. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city in Rafah. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: A displaced Palestinian child sits after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians in Rafah. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: A child looks on as displaced people dismantle their tents in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: Displaced people dismantle their tents in Rafah. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: Smoke billowing following a bombing east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Displaced Palestinians who left with their belongings from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians flee from the eastern side of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Ismael Abu Dayyah/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians hold leaflets dropped by Israeli planes calling on them to evacuate ahead of an Israeli military operation in Rafah. Ismael Abu Dayyah/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following an evacuation order by the Israeli army. -/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings following an evacuation order by the Israeli army. -/Getty Images
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