On Monday a morgue in Rafah filled up with the bodies of 25 people killed in Israeli airstrikes. Hospital records show 15 of them women and children.
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On Monday a morgue in Rafah filled up with the bodies of 25 people killed in Israeli airstrikes. Hospital records show 15 of them women and children.
Anas Baba for NPR
Israel has been public with it’s plan to conduct an assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, absent a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Such a military operation could be catastrophic for more than a million Palestinian civilians there, many having fled there from fighting elsewhere in Gaza. We hear the voices of people who are weighing the risks of staying and wondering where they can go.
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