Although in Israel everything stopped to celebrate Holocaust Remembrance DayResidents of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip today faced Israeli army evacuation orderspreparing for something terrible ground raid in a city home to more than a million internally displaced people.

“(The Israeli army) is going act decisively against terrorist organizations in the area where you currently live, as they have done so far. Anyone who remains in this area is putting themselves and their families in danger. For your safety, evacuate immediately to the expanded humanitarian zone in Al Mawasi,” read one of the messages received by residents today.

Israeli authorities have assured that this temporary and limited evacuationAnd this does not apply to the entire city, which borders Egypt and is a refuge for the majority of Gazans who have fled fighting elsewhere in the strip.

The army also said it had expanded the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone near the coast, which has tents, field hospitals and food and medicine for displaced people.
However, the government of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza warned that the response of citizens to evacuation orders was “limited” for now and that vital institutions such as the crossing into Egypt or the Abu Yousef al-Nayyar hospital would continue to operate.

“This won’t be a picnic.”

He Islamist group today warned Israeli forces that any military operation in Rafah “This will not be a picnic for the fascist occupation army”and that the armed wing of the group, Al-Qassama Brigadesready for “to protect our people”.
Hamas also asked international organizations still operating in the enclave, and in particular the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA), not to leave after Israel’s evacuation order.

The department, for its part, assured in the message that it would not comply with the orders. UNRWA “will maintain a presence in Rafah for as long as possible and continue to provide life-saving assistance to the people,” a post on its X account said.
He Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs This Monday he asked Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” and warned against possible Israeli invasion of Rafahwhich could blow up the already weakened negotiation process to achieve a truce.

Remembering the Holocaust

Meanwhile in Israel That commemorative events Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
At 10:00 local time, the alarm sounded across the country, stopping pedestrians and drivers for two minutes. On the streets of west Jerusalem, several pedestrians stopped and raised Israeli flags.
In Tel Aviv, images of cars stopped on major highways were seen, with drivers parked next to their stationary vehicles.
Shortly thereafter, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahustated during an event in the Knesset (parliament) that “The scale of carnage during the Holocaust is unimaginable.”. This is equivalent to 5,000 “October 7” 2023. when Hamas attacked Israeli territory and caused the death of about 1,200 people and the kidnapping of about 200, sparking the current war in the Gaza Strip.