Al-Mawasi is a Palestinian Bedouin town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, approximately one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long, that prior to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 existed as a Palestinian enclave within the Katif bloc of Israeli settlements. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Mawasi had a population of 1,409 in mid-year 2006.
IDF says 'precise operation' in Rafah continues as thousands more told to evacuate
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The Israeli military issued more evacuation orders for tens of thousand of Palestinians on Saturday, advising them to head to an..