{"id":18933,"date":"2024-05-10T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/satellite-imagery-shows-palestinians-fleeing-rafahs-tent-cities-as-threat-of-major-attack-looms\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:47:18","slug":"satellite-imagery-shows-palestinians-fleeing-rafahs-tent-cities-as-threat-of-major-attack-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/satellite-imagery-shows-palestinians-fleeing-rafahs-tent-cities-as-threat-of-major-attack-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite imagery shows Palestinians fleeing Rafah\u2019s tent cities as threat of major attack looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Palestinians have begun to flee Rafah\u2019s tent cities in large numbers over the past 72 hours, as the threat of a potential major Israeli assault looms, new satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"image-slider\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__container image-slider__horizontal\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-container\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-before\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-after\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__handle\">                    <span class=\"image-slider__left-arrow\"><\/span>                    <span class=\"image-slider__right-arrow\"><\/span>            <\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__overlay image-slider__isafter\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__before-label\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__after-label\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__caption\">        <span class=\"image-slider__title\">Satellite images show tent camps in Rafah, Gaza, on May 5 and May 8. <\/span>        <span class=\"image-slider__credit\">Planet Labs, PBC<\/span>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Some of the tent camps had been in United Nations schools, others in open fields, or along roadways for months.\u00a0Now, a significant number have vanished, but many remain in the camps despite IDF orders to leave.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Rafah has become the central focus of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces\u00a0growing pressure\u00a0from the extreme wing of his coalition to launch a full-scale ground operation in the city to destroy Hamas, while the more moderate wing has urged him to prioritize securing a\u00a0ceasefire-for-hostages deal.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            International pressure is growing for Israel not to move in on the densely populated city. During nearly seven months of war, more than 1 million Palestinians have taken refuge in Rafah. Hamas is also believed to have regrouped in the area, after Israel\u2019s destruction of much of the strip\u2019s north.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"image-slider\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__container image-slider__horizontal\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-container\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-before\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__image-after\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__handle\">                    <span class=\"image-slider__left-arrow\"><\/span>                    <span class=\"image-slider__right-arrow\"><\/span>            <\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__overlay image-slider__isafter\">\n<div class=\"image-slider__before-label\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__after-label\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-slider__caption\">        <span class=\"image-slider__title\">Satellite images show tent camps in Rafah, Gaza, on May 5 and May 8.<\/span>        <span class=\"image-slider__credit\">Planet Labs, PBC<\/span>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden sent shockwaves through the US and Israel when he warned that the US would halt some shipments of American weapons should Netanyahu order a major invasion of the city.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Gazans began fleeing Rafah on Monday, after Israel\u2019s military\u00a0issued a call\u00a0for residents in the east of Rafah to\u00a0\u201cevacuate immediately\u201d toward Al Mawasi and other areas north of Rafah. Many people have fled further north than Al-Mawasi, heading for areas in central Gaza that have more infrastructure.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinians have begun to flee Rafah\u2019s tent cities in large numbers over the past 72 hours, as the threat of a potential major Israeli assault looms, new satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows. Satellite images show tent camps in Rafah, Gaza, on May 5 and May 8. Planet Labs, PBC Some of the tent camps <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}