Footage filmed in southern Israel looking towards Rafah showed rising smoke in the distance over the skyline on Monday, 13 May. It comes as Israeli officials urged residents in more areas of Gaza’s southern-most city to evacuate, in a further sign its military is preparing for a ground incursion.
On the same day, the UK’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned that halting arms exports to Israel was “not a wise path” as he said it would be wrong for Israel to launch a full-scale invasion of Rafah “without a plan to protect people”.
The US paused a shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel last week, US officials revealed, over concerns about a Rafah assault.
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