Nick Schifrin:
And so excavators march into battle with a mission to flatten Gaza. And an already destroyed city, Rafah, is reduced to further rubble.
In the last month, Israel has expanded what it calls a buffer zone along the Gaza border from hundreds of feet to more than a mile and enlarged corridor that bisects Gaza. Today, it ordered the evacuation of Gaza’s second largest city and says it will move through Khan Yunis toward the sea. Israel controls about a third of Gaza and is pushing the population into shrinking pockets outside of IDF control.
Assaf Orion, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: We are now seeing Israel moving to create some kind of an inhabitable hellscape by demolishing the remaining buildings that Hamas is still using.