Tel Aviv, Israel – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) suspended its military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, for four hours for humanitarian aid, said Avichay Adraee, the IDF spokesperson for the Arab media.
“We will allow a tactical pause in fighting in Rafah during the day today, namely from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. GMT – TASS) for humanitarian purposes,” the spokesman wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in Arabic, TASS reported.
Adraee also said that the humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the Palestinian enclave’s northern areas will be available again from Al Shifa Hospital to the southern Gaza Strip along the Salah al-Din road from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time. Also, the Israeli military will allow Palestinian refugees to leave the Al-Shati camp, which the IDF claims to have taken control of, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time.
On Sunday, Adraee announced another tactical pause for “humanitarian food and evacuation of the population” near the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He also said that the humanitarian corridor that was available from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time on November 12 would be reopened for the evacuation of residents from the northern Gaza Strip from Al Shifa Hospital.
However, news came later on Sunday that Israeli drones had heavily shelled the premises of Al Shifa Hospital, injuring several people. A family of displaced people who attempted to flee the premises of Gaza’s largest hospital were killed in an Israeli strike, the Palestinian government reported.