Rafah is a city on the southern edge of Gaza that currently shelters more than half the enclave's 2.3 million people.
Rafah is a city on the southern edge of Gaza that currently shelters more than half the enclave's 2.3 million people. Aid agencies say any attack on Rafah will escalate the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while the US State Department says Israel must protect civilians as it seeks to annihilate Hamas.
Israel says it's pressing ahead with plans to attack Rafah, a city on the southern edge of Gaza which currently shelters more than half the enclave's 2.3 million people. The State Department says if Israel insists on following through with a Rafah assault, they need a better plan. And Israel has stepped up its military raids, killing three in an air strike on a car in Jenin they said was carrying senior Islamic Jihad members who had led attacks on Israelis.
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