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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/04/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/
Israel Briefs Aid Agencies on Rafah Military Operation
(Washington Post) Bryan Pietsch - Israel's Defense Ministry briefed more than ten humanitarian groups last week to discuss the planned IDF operation in Rafah. Yotam Shefer, the head of foreign relations at COGAT, the defense ministry's agency for coordinating relief in Gaza, pointed relief groups toward an expanded "safe zone" in Mawasi, five miles north of Rafah, where humanitarian workers and displaced people are expected to relocate. He said aid groups would receive 48 hours' notice to evacuate certain areas in southern Gaza. "It was not a question of if, but when it is going to happen," an aid official who attended the meeting said of Israel's military operation.