How Israel Carved Gaza Into ‘Deconfliction Zones’ It Says Are Safer for Civilians

Marah Jamala, a 21-year-old Palestinian student, received a robocall from the Israeli military this week warning that the neighborhood where she and her family were staying in Khan Younis was going to be unsafe because of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hamas.

The call instructed her family to leave for another area the military said would be safer. Her family piled their belongings into a donkey cart and headed even further—to Rafah, a city on Gaza’s border with Egypt.