Hamas warns that Israel's military advance in Rafah would leave "tens of thousands" of victims. Benjamin Netanyahu's government plans a ground incursion into that city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Western and Middle Eastern countries warn that it could be a humanitarian disaster. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday asked the military to draw up a "combined plan" for the "evacuation" of civilians from Rafah and the "destruction" of Hamas in that city. The United States, the European Union and the UN warned something similar on Friday.