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More than 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah woke up on May 7 to an evacuation order made by the Israeli army through dropped leaflets and phone calls, asking them to leave the eastern parts of Rafah and head to the “humanitarian area” in Al-Mawasi on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip. As hundreds of people left for either Al-Mawasi or the central cities of Gaza in Al-Bureij and Al-Nusairat, many could not abide by the order as they didn’t have any place to go. Sarah Sobhi, 32, a mother of one, originally from Rafah, could not leave the area because she didn’t know where to go. “Most of the …

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