Israel has identified the southern Gaza town of Rafah as the next target in its military offensive against Hamas.
The town is normally home to 280,000 people. But its population has swelled to more than 1.5 million — roughly three-quarters of Gaza’s population — as people flee fighting elsewhere in Gaza. Sprawling tent camps now dot the city.
The photos below were taken three months apart - and capture the difference.
They show an area near the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp. It’s part of the wider urban Rafah refugee camp, one of eight in the Gaza Strip that were built for families displaced during the war surrounding the creation of Israel in 1948.
