‘I want to die’: Civilians flee in Israeli offensive in Gaza

Rafah “no longer exists, he is being swept,” he told Reuters, through a message app, a father of seven children among the hundreds of thousands of people who fled from Rafah to neighboring Khan Youis.

They are overthrowing what is left of homes and properties said the man who declined to be identified for fear of repercussions.

The attack on capturing Rafah is a great climbing in war, which Israel restarted last month after effectively abandoning a ceasefire in force since January.

In Shejaia, in the north, one of the districts where Israel ordered the population to leave the place, hundreds of residents came out on Thursday, some carrying their belongings as they walked, others in donkey and bicycle or vans.

I want to die. May they kill us and set us free from this life. We are not living, we are dead Said Umm Aaed Bardaa

In Khan Younis, where several people were killed by an attack, Adel Abu Fakher was checking the damage to his tent: “Nothing left for us. We’re being killed while we slept,” he said.