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Feb 2024
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Growing panic in Rafah; protests over Pa...

The Economist
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Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees, said that there is a “deep sense of panic” in Rafah, a city in the south of Gaza, over an expected ground invasion by Israel.

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