Israel National News reports: “Residents of Rafah have told Reuters that in the past few days, the IDF has accelerated the rate of its operations, and tanks have advanced into the northern and western parts of the city ahead of the completion of the operation there.

‘The entire city of Rafah is an area of Israeli military operations,’ Ahmed Al-Sofi, the Mayor of Rafah, said in a statement published by Hamas media on Friday, adding that the situation in the city is ‘a humanitarian catastrophe.’

The residents report that tanks and infantry have already taken control of the eastern, southern, and central parts of the city, and are now working to take control of the north and west…”