The Israeli military has informed aid groups and the Biden administration of a plan to begin removing Gazans from Rafah ahead of an invasion, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the situation.

The Israel Defense Forces recently told the U.S. government and aid groups operating on the ground that they had developed a plan to move people out of Rafah, the main humanitarian hub in the enclave, to al-Mawasi, a small strip of land on the southern Gaza coast. The IDF sent a map of the area to aid workers this week, a copy of which obtained.

The IDF told aid groups the Rafah invasion will move ahead “soon” but did not give a specific date, the two people familiar said.

All the people were granted anonymity to detail sensitive internal planning.

Source: caliber.az