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Deadly strikes were reported early Saturday in Rafah \- the overcrowded Gaza border town dubbed a “pressure cooker of despair” by the UN – as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative truce deal between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled south to Rafah since the outbreak of the war. The city was formerly home to 200,000 inhabitants. Now, more than half of Gaza’s two million-plus population are living there, a WHO representative said Friday. “Most are living in makeshift structures, tents or out in the open,” OCHA spokesman Jens Laer…

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