A source in the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas said on Monday that the movement, after consulting with the resistance factions, decided to suspend the truce negotiations in Gaza.

The source added that the resistance factions' decision was to postpone the return of the negotiating delegation to Cairo pending the results of the mediators' efforts. He confirmed that the movement's leadership had received communications from the Egyptian side asking it not to escalate militaryly and give an opportunity to efforts aimed at containing the crisis and completing the truce negotiations in Gaza.

Egypt warned, in a statement issued by its Foreign Ministry on Monday, of "the dangers of a possible Israeli military operation in the Palestinian Rafah region, south of the Gaza Strip."

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry's statement explained that its warning came "because this escalatory action entails grave humanitarian risks that threaten more than a million Palestinians in that region."

Egypt called on Israel to "exercise the utmost restraint and avoid further escalation at this extremely sensitive time in the process of ceasefire negotiations, and to spare the blood of Palestinian civilians who have been exposed to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip," according to what was stated in the statement. .

The statement stressed that Egypt "continues its communications around the clock with all parties, in order to prevent the situation from worsening or getting out of control."

With the early hours of Monday morning, residents of the eastern areas of the city of Rafah began receiving calls on their mobile phones from the Israeli occupation army containing recorded voice messages asking them to evacuate all the areas in which they are located, including a number of towns up to the borders of the city center. Before starting large military operations in that region.

The warnings included asking the people not to go to the areas of Al-Balad, Al-Sultan, and the Saudi neighborhood, which the occupation previously claimed were safe, and asking them to go to the Al-Mawasi area in the city of Khan Yunis, warning against heading to Gaza City or the northern area, which is still besieged, and which the occupation army considers to be an area. Fighting, as is the case in the eastern region of Rafah at the present time.

Thousands of people headed from the eastern areas of Rafah to the west and center of the city, to the west of the city of Khan Yunis (south) and to the north of the city of Deir al-Balah (centre), despite the scarcity of means of transportation due to the lack of fuel in the Strip. They intend to re-erect their tents in those areas in light of There is no shelter available there.

There are approximately 1.5 million people in Rafah, the majority of whom were displaced from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip during the past months of the Israeli aggression. A state of panic spread among the displaced people east of Rafah, and the sounds of children and women crying became louder in the evacuation scene, as many carried their luggage heading to the areas. Downtown Rafah, hoping to get a means of transportation that would take them to the western area and Al-Rashid Street, which leads to the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis.

A leader in the Hamas movement told Reuters, earlier today, that the Israeli evacuation order from Rafah is “a dangerous development and will have repercussions,” pointing out that “the American administration bears responsibility alongside the occupation for this terrorism.”