The Israeli military gave a few chosen journalists a tour of an area in the war-battered city of Rafah in southern Gaza. The reporters on Friday’s escorted tour were unable to visit other parts of the city. Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza independently.
Rafah’s district of Tal as-Sultan was a landscape of destruction, months into Israel’s invasion. Giant piles of wreckage that had once been homes of Palestinian residents lined the roads. A few shattered concrete skeletons of apartment buildings still stood.
Once an Israeli-designated “safe” zone, soldiers moved into Rafah in May and forced about 1.4 million Palestinians to flee – including residents of Rafah and hundreds of thousands of people who had taken refuge from other parts of Gaza. They are now dispersed around southern and central Gaza.
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