European chief diplomat Josep Borell says 1.4 million Palestinians in southern Gaza city are ‘without safe place to go, facing starvation’
The below satellite images provided by Planet Labs PBC show how the population of Rafah has swelled to more than 1.5 million people – roughly three-quarters of Gaza’s population – as people flee fighting elsewhere in Gaza. The southern Gaza town of is normally home to 280,000 people.
Israeli airstrikes that targeted a building in an upmarket area near the Syrian capital killed three people early Saturday, reports AFP citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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