On Monday, an Israeli Defense Force statement said that the Israeli army had told Palestinians to begin evacuating eastern Rafah, signaling a possible ground invasion. The military did not immediately confirm the report on Army Radio, which said evacuations were concentrated on a few peripheral districts of Rafah. From there, evacuees would be directed to tent cities in nearby Khan Younis and Al Muwassi. The Israeli military ordered Palestinians living in eastern Rafah to relocate to a neighboring “humanitarian area,” seemingly signaling the start of a civilian evacuation preceding a ground as…