Tens of thousands of civilians fled the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah as an expanded Israeli ground offensive looms, while Palestinians on Wednesday mark the anniversary of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948.
Around 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias in 1948 amid the creation of the Isralei state, with most taking refuge in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Wednesday's commemoration of the Nakba comes as the Israeli war across the Gaza Strip forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement.
Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since 6 May, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said.
This means around a quarter of Gaza's population of 2.4 million people have been displaced again in about one week.
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