Israel talks up Rafah invasion as Hamas prepares for full-scale attack

Amid 40C heat, key players from the UN gathered in a tattered compound in Rafah to hear the organisation’s most senior security official brief them on what many expect to be a traumatic and bloody few  months in southern Gaza.

“We can’t predict but we can prepare,” Gilles Michaud, UN Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security, told aid workers from the World Food Programme...