The Israeli army has ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza's southern city of Rafah to start evacuating from the area, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent.
The announcement complicates last-ditch efforts by international mediators, including the CIA director, to broker a cease-fire.Em Nguyen has details from Washington.The Israeli army on Monday ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza's southern city of Rafah to start evacuating from the area, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent.
Overnight, Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, told U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin that Israel had no choice but to act in Rafah. On Sunday, Hamas carried out a deadly rocket attack from the Rafah area that killed four Israeli soldiers. About 1.4 million Palestinians - more than half of Gaza's population - are jammed into the city and its surroundings. Most of them fled their homes elsewhere in the territory to escape Israel's onslaught and now face another wrenching move or the danger of staying under a new assault. They live in densely packed tent camps, overflowing U.N.
On Monday, Netanyahu accused Hamas of "torpedoing" the hostage deal and not budging from its "extreme demands" while vowing to stop the militants from retaking control of Gaza. In a fiery speech Sunday evening marking the country's annual Holocaust memorial day, he rejected international pressure to halt the war, saying that "if Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
Egypt, a strategic partner of Israel, has said that an Israeli military seizure of the Gaza-Egypt border - which is supposed to be demilitarized - or any move to push Palestinians into Egypt would threaten its four-decade-old peace treaty with Israel.
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