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More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah: UN

GreenWatch Desk World News 2024-05-10, 7:14pm

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(BSS) - More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion.

"More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah," said Hamish Young, UNICEF's senior emergency coordinator in the Gaza Strip, told a briefing in Geneva via video-link from Rafah.