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Palestinians flee advancing Israeli forces in Gaza City on Monday [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
Displaced Palestinians flee from the east to the west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued orders to leave the area or face attack. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
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Israeli forces have carried out strikes on three schools in Gaza City, killing at least 33 people – 18 of them children.
The schools were being used as shelters by hundreds of displaced Palestinian families.
Israel’s military has also issued orders for residents in more neighbourhoods in Gaza City to flee their homes.
Hundreds of thousands flee as Israel seizes Rafah in new Gaza 'security zone'
About 135,000 Palestinians have fled over the past 24 hours, most on foot, with some carrying their belongings on their backs and others using donkey carts.
People flee on al-Rashid Road, the only route linking northern and southern Gaza [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
Nurse Kateryna, 24, an internally displaced person (IDP) evacuated from the eastern frontline city of Kostyantynivka, comforts her cat Abu at a transit center in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, # Ukraine. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Children look on, as they travel on a vehicle, while Palestinians make their way after fleeing areas around the southern city of Rafah, following an Israeli evacuation order, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Families fleeing Rafah arrive in Khan Younis city following new Israeli forced evacuation orders on Monday [Eyad Baba/AFP]
About 90 percent of Rafah has received forced evacuation orders to Al-Mawasi. This is a sandy stretch of land without necessities, such as water or electricity. Palestinians have already sought refuge there during the war.
At least 50,000 Palestinians currently reside in Rafah.
![A Palestinian woman after an Israeli attack on al-Mawasi [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/256/544/199/740/261/original/ce97398a95bd85f3.webp "A Palestinian woman after an Israeli attack on al-Mawasi [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]")
An old woman reacts as Palestinians make their way to flee their homes, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
A Palestinian girl inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Palestinians flee Israeli attacks on the northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, on Tuesday [Abd Khaled/Anadolu]
Palestinian family fleeing on a donkey cart.
January 19, 2025, M. Issa
Palestinians forced to flee Rafah by foot after Israeli attacks
As Israel bombs, shells and bulldozes northern Gaza, Palestinians have few places to go
A girl pulls a cart loaded with belongings as Palestinians flee their homes after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a number of neighbourhoods in Beit Hanoun.
Photograph: Abd Elhkeem Khaled/
Reuters
Palestinians use a donkey and cart to transport their belongings as they flee bombing in the northern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s civil defence agency said on 20 March that 504 people had been killed since the bombardment resumed this week, more than 190 of them children, Beit Lahiya
Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians flee their homes after the Israeli army issued forced displacement orders in Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip, March 19, 2025 [Abd Elhkeem Khaled/Reuters]
