Satellite images show significant growth in tent housing around Gaza border city
ABC News
Aid groups are warning of the humanitarian risks of an assault on Rafah in Gaza.
The number of tents housing internally displaced people in the southern Gaza border town of Rafah has grown significantly over the past few weeks, according to an ABC News review of satellite images.
Two photos, taken by Planet Labs on Jan. 14 and Feb. 4, reveal the growing number of tents in just one small area outside of Rafah.
Rafah's population has grown amid intense fighting and expanding evacuation orders to the north in the past few weeks. International aid organizations tracking the increase in internally displaced people (IDPs) in Rafah have warned about the potential humanitarian consequences of a threatened incursion by the Israel Defense Forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had told the IDF "to prepare to act" in the southern city which he said was among "the last remaining strongholds of Hamas" in remarks on Wednesday.
