Nails 450,000 people left Rafah since the start of Israel’s military operation in the city, where tanks entered the western neighborhoods on Tuesday and its offensive intensifies Yabalianorth of the Strip, where he ordered evacuation in more areas.

“The streets in Rafah are empty and families are fleeing for safety. People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear,” the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said.

“No place is safe. The only hope is an immediate ceasefire,” the agency said about the situation in this city. Just a week ago, 1.4 million people lived here.

The city bordering Egypt has been hit since dawn intense air and artillery bombardmentwhile Israeli tanks advance west towards the city center, entering the Geneina, Salam and Brazil neighborhoods.

The tanks crossed the threshold of the Salah-ed-Din road, which divides the city into eastern and western halves. clashes with Palestinian militias in the urbanized area of ​​Rafah, witnesses confirmed to EFE.

“Israel Defense Forces Eliminated several terrorist cells in hand-to-hand clashes on the Gaza side at the Rafah crossing,” the statement said. Israeli army that a week ago he took control of the Palestinian part of this pass and since then no humanitarian aid has arrived there.

Al-Qassama Brigadesarmed wing of Hamas, reported his attacks artillery on Israeli troops stationed at the Rafah checkpoint, which communicates with Egypt, and on an infantry convoy in the Salam area with a Yassin 105 missile.

New evacuations in Yabalia

This Tuesday Israeli troops have expanded their activities with “selective operations against terrorist targets” V Yabaliawhere “numerous battles took place, artillery tanks killed dozens of terrorists and a network of explosives was dismantled,” the army said, calling for evacuation of two new neighborhoods, Atatra and Salatina.

“Hamas and other organizations terrorists use this territory for terrorist activities and for launch rockets into Israeli territory, therefore We will act urgently and decisively“, – stated in the message Army to the population.

Israel resumes military activities in Jabaliya on Sunday ahead of the return and regrouping of Hamas troops in an area of ​​the northern sector where it had already launched a brutal offensive in October at the start of the war.

Israeli offensive in Gaza caused at least 82 deaths and 234 injuries in the last 24 hours, significantly higher daily rates more than recorded in recent weeks.

Since the start of the war on October 7, the death toll has risen to 35,173 dead -more than 70% civilians – and 79,061 injured, according to a tally by the Hamas-controlled enclave’s Ministry of Health, which estimates that 10,000 bodies trapped under rubble.

According to Israel, about 15,000 of the dead are combatants.

Palestinian medical services also reported an Israeli airstrike on family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, where dozens of people were taking refuge. Twenty died.

Rescue services assure that there are more bodies under the rubble but ambulances cannot reach them.

In Nuseirat Israeli aircraft also bombed an UNRWA school According to Palestinian media reports, displaced people started the fire. The army confirmed this, saying that a “Hamas battle room” was hidden there and that fifteen combatants had been “liquidated.”