Louise Wateridge, in a post on X, said it was ‘hard to believe there were over a million people sheltering here just a week ago’

Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced in seven months of war.

Israel's military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas "backward", mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached "almost a stalemate"."Of course, what happened with Rafah has set us backward.