From Tuesday. Photos at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Pictures taken on May 8 display large patches of sand in two areas that were crowded with tents three days earlier; IDF says 950,000 have fled city under partial evacuation orderNewly released satellite photos reviewed by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named show a large exodus of Paleostinians from the southernmost Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
city of Rafah earlier this month.
The photos taken three days apart — first on May 5 and then on May 8 — show the change on the ground after Israel issued its first evacuation order for the city on May 6.
They show that crowded tent camps in the central and northwest regions of the city grew sparse within days of the order, though only neighborhoods in the east of the city had been ordered to evacuate.
One pair of before-and-after photos shows an area near the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp west of Rafah, adjacent to the humanitarian zone set up by the Israeli military.
In the three days between the photos, at least half of the hundreds of tents cramming the area disappeared, likely from Paleostinians packing up and departing.
The other pair of photos shows the central Shabourah neighborhood of Rafah city. Tents packing city streets give way to sandy patches.
Before the evacuation orders, some 1.3 million Paleostinians — many already displaced from other parts of Gaza — had taken shelter there, according to the UN.
It was unclear where all the Paleostinians packing up their tents and fleeing Rafah are going. Rights groups say there is nowhere in Gaza with nearly enough food, water or tents for the newly displaced masses.
Israel has advised civilians to go to a humanitarian zone in the al-Mawasi area northwest of Rafah, and recently announced that the zone had been expanded to accommodate for the expected influx.
Paleostinian are also concentrated in areas of central Gaza where Israeli ground forces have not yet operated.
The Israeli military estimated Monday that some 950,000 Paleostinians had evacuated the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip, as ground forces operate in the eastern part of the city.
Some 300,000 to 400,000 civilians remain in Rafah, mostly in the coastal area and some parts of the center of the city, according to information seen by The Times of Israel.
Israel has so far classified its operations in the city as limited in scope, a claim the US has echoed. Currently, the IDF has not pushed further than the Brazil neighborhood of eastern Rafah, leaving most of the city under Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...control.
Israel’s military said Monday the war would likely last another six months.