thousands of people on the move and there are concerns about where they are being asked to go to muwasifacilities to deal with the large influx of people. the israeli military calls this a humanitarian zone but it is not recognised as such, it has been expanded in recent days but those arriving in this coastal tent city have told us there are shortages of everything, there are no supplies, nothing to feed their children and that situation will not improve as long as the border crossings remain closed. this is happening as the us government report as publishing it is reasonable to expect arms have been used in inconsistent ways with humanitarian law, has there been a reaction from israel? israel has been seen consistently it keeps to international law that investigate any alleged abuses of international law and that the force it is using in as that is proportionate to the threat it sees from hamas, in effect an existential threat. sam rose is director of planning at the un agency for palestinian refugees, unrwa and is in rafah. he's been telling me about the situation on the ground. the

it's told them to go here — muwasi.cene live at that location, which has been labelled an �*expanded humanitarian area' by the israel defence forces. in a separate evacuation order on monday — thousands were told to leave rafah, ahead of what israel called a �*limited' operation. there's been fighting in parts since.these developments have happened as a long—awaited us government report has criticised israel's use of american—supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying it's reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances. let's cross over to rafah to speak to sam rose — director of planning at the un agency for palestinian refugees, unrwa. thank you forjoining us. can we talk about the evacuation orders, people being asked, thousands of people being asked, thousands of people on the move to different areas in gaza, how is that affecting the ability to provide humanitarian aid. it the ability to provide humanitarian aid. ., , the ability to provide humanitarian aid. . ,

this is where people have been told to go, muwasi, which has been labelled an "expanded humanitarianazans have moved towards there since the first evacuation orders on monday. these developments have happened as a long—awaited us government report has criticised israel's use of american—supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances. 0urjerusalem correspondent yolande knell has more on the situation in rafah. ok, so these new evacuation orders are still in the eastern parts of rafah, but they suggest the israeli military is expanding its offensive there. we've already been hearing that there's been artillery shelling in the centre of the city as well as in the east, israeli air strikes as well, and also israeli gunships off the coast have been opening fire, one of the residents there was telling us. but already israeli tanks have encircled an area which is to the east of rafah which they had told residents to evacuate from earlier in the week, so now those tanks do seem to be advancin

we are preparing to go to muwasi because they said it is a humanitarian area, but we do not know whether to go. i don't think it will be a safe area, because the israeli army does not have a safe area in gaza. they target everything. john: in centralaza, overnight airstrikes killed at least 15 people, 16 of them -- at least 19 people, 16 of them women and children. the u.n. warns that a full-scale rafah invasion would further cripple humanitarian deliveries of much-needed food, water and fuel. russian forces have taken control of five more villages outside of kharkiv as they press a renewed offensive in ukraine's northeast. the region's governor says russian artillery and airstrikes are pummeling more than 30 villages. the capture of that territory expands the russian buffer zone along the border. ukrainian authorities say nearly 2000 civilians have fled the fierce fighting. the russian push comes as ukraine waits for promised western ammunition and weapons to reach the frontline. heavy rains have triggered deadly flash floods on three continents. in northern afghanistan, the u-n -- the

, thousands of people on the move and there are concerns that where they're being asked to go to, muwasiren't the facilities there to deal with such a large influx of people, so concerns there as well. the israeli military calls this a humanitarian zone but it is really not recognised internationally as being such. the israeli military says it has been expanded in recent days but those arriving in this coastal area in this sort of tent city have told us there are shortages of everything, they are not finding any supplies there, they've got nothing to feed their children and that situation is not going to improve as long as these border crossings remain closed. can ijust ask one more thing about this, this is all happening obviously as this us government report was published saying it's reasonable to assess that arms have been used in ways inconsistent with israel's obligations under humanitarian law, has there been any reaction from israel to this? we've not had an official reaction from israel at this point, but israel has been saying consistently that it keeps to international law, tha

thousands of leaflets were dropped on eastern raffa, directing people to flee north to an area called al-muwasi, which has been a designated humanitarian zone, one that has been expanded. the israeli military says in recent weeks with additional shelters, water, food being brought in, as well as field hospitals. but 100,000 those in people currently live in that part of eastern rafat that is being evacuated and there are major questions at this stage about whether or not that humanitarian zone has sufficient shelter, food, and medicine for the number of individuals who are being directed to go. their concerns being raised by humanitarian aid official those about the adequacy of that area, but also concerns that wide-scale panic could be spreading in rafah with people outside of that immediate eastern rafah evacuation zone also beginning to head north. we've already started to see people who did not receive those leaflets beginning to flee north out of concern for what may come next. there's no question that there is major fear and anxiety in rafah at the moment as the israeli military says that

areas of rafah to evacuate to this quote, humanitarian area, north along the coastline called al-muwasi. whereas you pointed out, this is not exactly a gleaming humanitarian area. this is an area where people are setting up tents on the side of the road and where there is very little infrastructure to handle this volume of people. the un says that there i've been some 30,000 people moving on average every single day over the past few days. and now these new evacuations may well swell those numbers though there are people in rafah who are finding it difficult to actually move north and some who are simply unwilling to move as well, in terms of the aid situation in southern gaza there's this sort of back-and-forth between the two sides. the israelis continued to insist that there has been some aid, at least getting in through one of those crossings into southern gaza. the us says that as well. but the palestinian side says that that's not the case. and so does the world food program that says that there has been no aid getting in for the last three days. that's wednesday, thursday, or fri

other people doubt the safety of that al-muwasi humanitarian zone as israel is calling it saying that israel could strike there. anyways, here's what one man told reuters over the weekend and rafah, listen rule. we are tired and lost. we don't know where to go. and a small area, we are lost. no one is standing with us, not netanyahu nor muslims are saudi arabia nor any arab country. this is the destruction we are working as workers. i lift with a shirt and a torn undershirt. i'm working as a worker for ten shekels. we are suffering from the high prices from one side and the war from the other side. and we are displaced, i swear since five days, i only had one meal and us secretary of state, antony blinken did the rounds on us tv this weekend, making very publicly the case against israel's looming full-scale invasion of the rafah area. >> the us is arguing now that this will lead to chaos and a power vacuum that will very likely be he filled by hamas. usa obviously is not wanting to supply any weapons to israel for that invasion the us national security adviser jake sullivan, also had

pushing those that it's asked to evacuate toward one particular area along the coastline called al-muwasi is a sandy area, it dunes there and very little though in the way of infrastructures to support the 300,000 people who have pitched tents in those areas. that's double the number that the idf estimated on thursday, 150,000 and inside rafah, there's there's already plenty of evidence that the streets are starting to hollow out. people are leaving, they're picking up whatever they have in their going either by car or by donkey cart or in many cases on foot and our cnn stringer today, jessica was able to speak with one woman as she was leaving today with three young kids in tow and she was very emotional and she said, it horrible. is the world happy to see this? we can't find a place to stay. >> we don't know where we're going to go. and she's obviously not even close to the only one, jessica? yeah, there are many many more just like her. scott. thanks so much for that reporting. let's go now to priscilla alvarez, who's at the white house in washington. actually, she's in seattle. she's

they're being told there's an area along the coast, al-muwasi witches considered according to the israeliitary, a humanitarian safer zone. but according to the un, it is an inhumane displacement pointing out that this area, that they are being told to move towards is simply not suitable for the sheer number of people and the humanitarian support simply isn't there at this point. now, the humanitarian support and the aid that is getting into these areas of a rafah or and southern gaza had been severely hampered over recent days since this operation began. we know that the israeli military is in control of the rafah crossing. this was a key crossings to get the humanitarian aid trucks in. and we understand that egyptian officials at this point or not coordinating with israel to get more trucks. and because they are citing security concerns, it's not just managing to drive a humanitarian aid truck through into the gaza strip. you are driving into a war zone and it is extremely difficult to then be able to safely distribute the aid once inside. now we understand according to the israeli milit

so the al-muwasi is one of the areas just along the coast, but it's been described as un by un teams on the ground as inhumane and saying that it is just not suitable for people to be moving to as the humanitarian situation is not good enough, there so what we are seeing is, of course, some cannot move. we're seeing some of the six, some of the wounded are unable to leave, were hearing from un groups as well that some of the people who are leaving now have left on average, once a month, they have been moved on by the israeli military, or they have been moved on for fear of being caught up in the fighting about once a month since october 7. so a desperate situation. and of course it's making the humanitarian crisis even worse as well. we know that the rafah crossing at this point, so the israeli military is in control of it, but egypt is saying that they are not willing to coordinate with israel at this point to try and reopen the crossing and bring more humanitarian aid trucks in. and they are citing security concerns it's not just the concern about getting the trucks into gaza. it i

been urging them through not only phone calls but text messages, and those flyers, to move to the muwasianitarian zone on the coast north of rafah. as ongoing negotiations between both hamas and israel cleared to be collapsing. ending the latest round of negotiations, there are some reports they could be heading back tomorrow to continue those talks. on that same day, yesterday, there was also a deadly mortar attack on the crossing that the idf says was fired from an area near the humanitarian zone in rafah. hamas claimed responsibility and, during a call with you and defense secretary lloyd austin, israel's defense minister said there is no choice left but to eventually conduct some sort of operation. he said it appears hamas is not serious about coming up with a new cease-fire deal. >> interpreter: we are recognizing worrying signals that hamas is not planning to accept any dealer agreement with us. the meaning of this operation in rafah and the entire gaza strip in the very near future. >> hamas released a statement a little earlier today saying any sort of ground operation into rafah

al-muwasi. and this is an area that's that unrwa, the un team there has said is inhumane and is not fit for human habitation at this point because it is already overcrowded and they do not have the humanitarian support to be able to look after those that are now moving at according to the head of unrwa. he also said that most of those who are now in rafah have already been moved at least once a month by the israeli military or by the fighting since october 7. so a desperate situation, they call it inhumane displacement. but it does appear to be continuing these orders are continuing to being given one of the main issues is getting humanitarian aid to those who are moving bear in mind any of these aid agencies based themselves in rafah itself as it was the area of the military visceral had said that everybody should move to because it was a safer area over recent months, the rafah crossing we understand is closed. egypt doesn't want to coordinate with israel, which has taken over that crossing be

the idf is telling people to move to an expanded humanitarian zone on the al-muwasi refugee camp. the idf is now saying that this zone will be expanded from the area where it is in the west of gaza and the south and west of gaza northwards and eastwards towards khan younis and deir al balah in the center of gaza, the idf is saying there are expanding this safe area, but what we've seen in previous military operations when the idf announces to the civilian populations that they need to get out of the way and avoid these military zones where there will be military operations underway civilians have invariably been caught up and killed in the targeting of sites where the idf says its going after hamas, we know overnight there were, there were 11 houses according to civilian authorities inside of gaza, 11 houses destroyed by israeli airstrikes. they say in rafah overnight about more than 20 people killed in strikes overnight, whether or not this amounts to a precursor for, for a military of wider military offensive is not clear, but last yesterday the hamas military brigades claimed r

the al-muwasi refugee camp. the idf says, i've expanded this up to the north towards deir al balah and two wards, the east as well in khan younis, these are towns, cities rather that the idf has already had major operations and so he's telling us it's telling would un estimates to be about 100,000 palestinian civilians living in that eastern part of uh, raffa to evacuate a move to this safer area, it's not clear how long they have or when this military operation will begin. but the idf is telling them in these leaflets, in these announcements that they need to move immediately. you when officials talking about this to cnn in the past our also say that the area that the people are being evacuated to just not have sufficient to water does not have sufficient food at least one of the border crossings in the south was closed sunday when hamas fired rockets at an idf position just over the border inside of israel, three idf soldiers were killed in that the israeli foreign minister's office has just put out a statemen

this is the live scene in muwasi — where they have been told to go.