Stranded in Rafah as an Israeli Invasion Looms

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This episode contains strong language and descriptions of war. After months of telling residents in the Gaza Strip to move south for safety, Israel now says it plans to invade Rafah, the territory’s southernmost city. More than a million people are effectively trapped there without any clear idea of where to go. Two Gazans describe what it is like to live in Rafah right now.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisee, and this is the Daily.
0:09.6	In four months of war, Israel has regularly warned residents of the Gaza Strip to move
0:14.9	south for safety. As a result, more than a million Gazans, about half the
0:21.2	population of the entire enclave, have ended up in the city of
0:25.2	Rafa. Now as the war enters its fifth month, Prime Minister Benjamin Nen Yahoo
0:32.1	has said that the next phase of Israel's fight against
0:35.0	Hamas would be in Rafa and ordered the military to draw plans to evacuate it.
0:41.5	But Rafa is the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, pinned between the Egyptian border and the fighting further north.
0:49.0	And it is not clear where the people sheltering there would evacuate two.
0:55.0	Today, two Gazans on life in Raffa.
1:00.0	It's Tuesday, February 20th. Hi is Sabrina Tabernisie.
1:18.7	Hi, Goda. This is Sabada? Yes.
1:23.0	Hi, Gada, this is Sabrina Tavernessi from the New York Times from The Daily Podcast.
1:27.9	Can you speak?
1:28.9	Yes, for sure.
1:29.9	Can you hear me well?
1:31.3	I can hear you well.
1:32.4	I can.
1:33.0	Okay.
1:34.0	Where am I speaking to you right now?
1:36.0	Where are you?
1:37.0	I'm Raffa City south of Gaza Strip.
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