Ramah Nasser was in Rafa this week when she got the order. It came from the Israel Defense Forces and it said to evacuate immediately, ahead of an expected military action. All around her in Raffa,

people began dismantling tents and clearing out.

Nasr told reporters, I left my home and fled. I took clothes to change and left.

I did not take one thing with me, nothing.

She was waving her arms while standing in a main street in Raffa,

and then she continued. Not kulashab,

I should be yamil.

People are all dead, she said.

What do they want from us.

Raffa is a critical place in the war. Israel has now taken control of the border crossing there

and is considering advancing into the city.

Ruffer is one of the main cities in southern Gaza and it sits right on the border with Egypt.

It's grown hugely throughout the course of the war. It was a city with a

population of a few hundred thousand people and it's surged to over a million.

Lovde Morris is a foreign correspondent for the post currently in Jerusalem, and she's been reporting

on this focus on Raffa.

It's also seen as the last holdout for Hamas, and that's why it's really in the sites of the Israeli military.

But this push from Israel has prompted pushback from Israel's strongest ally, the United States.

Wednesday night, President Biden told CNN that he would withhold weapons if

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches a full ground invasion into Rafa.

I made it clear that if they go into Rafa, they haven't gone on Rafa yet, if they go into Rafa,

I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafa,

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