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Israel plans to invade city after evacuation

Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the densely populated southern Gaza city.

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  1. Anchorage Daily News

    Netanyahu orders Gaza’s crowded town of Rafah evacuated ahead of Israeli ground invasion (opens Anchorage Daily News)

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    Israel says Rafah is the last remaining Hamas stronghold and it needs to send in troops to complete its war plan against the Islamic militant group.

  2. Local News 8

    Netanyahu directs Israeli military to draw up plan to evacuate more than one million people from Rafah as offensive looms (opens Local News 8)

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    By Amir Tal and Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the country’s military to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah, his office said in a statement on Friday, ahead of an anticipated ground assault on the southern Gaza city. More than 1.

  3. Philadelphia Inquirer

    Netanyahu orders an evacuation plan for densely packed Rafah ahead of an expected invasion (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Israel says that after more than four months of war Rafah is the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza.

  4. ABC 7 San Francisco

    Israel plans to evacuate Palestinians crammed into southern Gaza city ahead of expected invasion (opens ABC 7 San Francisco)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah.

  5. Los Angeles Times

    Netanyahu orders population of Gaza's crowded Rafah evacuated ahead of an expected ground invasion (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to prepare a plan for the evacuation of the population of the southern Gaza town of Rafah ahead of an expected ground invasion.

  6. Forbes

    Israeli Prime Minister Orders Plan To Evacuate 1.3 Million People In Rafah (opens Forbes)

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    Israeli forces are preparing to enter Rafah, described by Benjamin Netanyahu as the “last bastion” of Hamas on Thursday.

  7. Fox News

    Netanyahu planning to evacuate civilians from large Gaza city as expected invasion looms (opens Fox News)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday declared Jerusalem's intent to evacuate the southern Gaza city of Rafah, currently home to some 1.4 million people.

  8. Courthouse News Service

    Israel PM orders army to prepare to evacuate civilians from Gaza’s Rafah (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    Palestinians displaced from other Gaza towns and cities have flooded into Rafah, sending its population soaring to an estimated 1.3 million, more than half of the territory

  9. Herald Bulletin

    Netanyahu orders evacuation plan for densely packed Gaza city ahead of expected invasion (opens Herald Bulletin)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to prepare a plan for the evacuation of the population of the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of

  10. Deutsche Welle

    Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu orders Rafah 'evacuation' plan – DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Amid concerns from the US and UN, Israeli forces in Gaza were instructed to submit a plan for evacuating civilians ahead of a planned military operation. DW has the latest.

  11. WHDH Boston

    Netanyahu directs Israeli military to draw up plan for ‘evacuation of the population’ from Rafah - Boston News, Weather, Sports (opens WHDH Boston)

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    (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the country’s military to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah, his office said in

  12. New York Post

    Israel developing dual plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of strike on Hamas: Netanyahu (opens New York Post)

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    JERUSALEM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he had ordered the military to develop a dual plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah in southern Gaza and to defeat the remaining Hamas battalions, as international pressure on Israel mounts.

  13. Washington Examiner

    Netanyahu orders IDF to come up with evacuation plans for Rafah (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Despite public support for Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas, Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu are growing farther apart.

  14. Breitbart News

    Netanyahu Orders Plan to Evacuate Rafah, Destroy Last Hamas Battalions (opens Breitbart News)

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    Netanyahu ordered the IDF to prepare a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah, and to attack and destroy the last Hamas battalions.

  15. West Hawaii Today

    Israel seeks to evacuate Palestinians jammed into a southern Gaza city ahead of an expected invasion (opens West Hawaii Today)

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    JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the densely populated southern Gaza city.

  16. NPR

    Israeli PM plans for ground invasion of Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering (opens NPR)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he remains focused on eliminating Hamas and has ordered plans to be drawn up to evacuate Rafah in order to target militants there.

  17. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Israel plans to invade city after evacuation (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the densely populated southern Gaza city.

  18. PBS NewsHour

    Netanyahu orders Israeli military to plan for evacuation of Rafah ahead of ground assault (opens PBS NewsHour)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to develop plans to evacuate Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza. Its population before Oct. 7 was 100,000. Now, more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled to the city.

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