🔴 Live: Israel orders new evacuations of residents from southern Gaza city of Rafah

Israel on Saturday called on residents from more areas of Rafah in the Gaza Strip to evacuate and head to an “expanded humanitarian area”, according to a post on social media site X by the military’s Arabic spokesperson. The US State Department  said in a report released Friday that it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel has used weapons in ways inconsistent with international humanitarian law during the seven-month Gaza war.  Read our live blog to follow today's developments.