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PBS News Hour - Segments

Israel faces diplomatic pressure to avoid assault on Rafah

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The United Nations says more than 360,000 Gazans who fled to Rafah have now been forced to flee again as Israeli troops attack sectors of the city in a bid to rout Hamas. Also in Rafah, the first foreign U.N. staff member was killed by Israeli troops. More than 100 Palestinian U.N. staff have been killed since Oct. 7. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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The United Nations says that more than 360,000 Gazans who fled to Raffa have now been forced to flee again

0:08.0

as Israeli troops attack sectors of the city in a bid to rout Hamas.

0:12.0

Also in Raffa today the first foreign

0:14.8

UN staffer was killed by Israeli troops. More than a hundred Palestinian UN staff

0:19.8

have been killed since October 7th. Nick Schifrin has our report.

0:26.2

A city that's been teeming with the displaced is now slowly being deserted.

0:31.6

A quarter of the 1.3 million Gazans who fled here

0:35.5

are now packing everything their cars or bikes can carry

0:40.2

and fleeing again.

0:45.0

Fata Ahmed is among the last to leave. I don't have a choice like everyone else.

0:48.0

Everyone left so I am doing the same.

0:51.0

What should I do stay alone? I am scared to stay alone. Many have been

0:55.7

displaced to what is essentially the beach piling their lives upon a pile of

1:00.2

sand. Meet the Zatar family. This is their third home as it were since the war began.

1:06.7

The children have kept their smile, but their mother Aminas has vanished.

1:11.2

I can't find a tent to set up for me and my children.

1:15.0

They are suffering underneath the sun.

1:17.0

Its heat has burnt them and they are ill.

1:20.0

Israel is ordering Rafa evacuated because the IDF says Hamas's final four

1:26.2

battalions fight from there including with mortars last weekend that killed

1:30.3

four Israeli soldiers and blocked humanitarian aid.

1:33.7

Let's make it clear if we don't destroy the last four battalions of Hamas in Raffa, we will have lost the war.

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