Humanitarians: Safe evacuation of Rafah impossible

united nations — Humanitarians and medical professionals working in the Gaza Strip warned Wednesday that a full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah would be a catastrophe and said the safe, mass evacuation of civilians is not possible. About 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah in southern Gaza after moving repeatedly from other parts of the strip to escape bombings and fighting. On Monday, Israel dropped leaflets on a 30-square-kilometer area in eastern Rafah, telling residents to move to the coastal town of Al Mawasi...