The IDF says it has expanded the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in Rafah.

The IDF is calling on residents in the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah to temporarily evacuate to the expanded humanitarian zone.

The expanded humanitarian zone includes field hospitals, tents and increased amounts of food, water, medicine and other supplies.”

The statement from the IDF says it will “continue pursuing Hamas everywhere in Gaza until all the hostages that they’re holding in captivity are back home.”

Israel’s armed forces have issued a call for residents and displaced people of “eastern neighborhoods of Rafah” to evacuate, a day after Israeli leaders reiterated a promise to launch an attack on the southern city.

In accordance with the approval of the political echelon, the IDF is calling on the population, which is under the control of Hamas, to temporarily evacuate from the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah to the expanded humanitarian space. This matter will progress in a gradual manner according to ongoing situation assessments that will take place all the time.”

The IDF said in its statement that it was making the call to evacuate through “announcements, text messages, phone calls and media broadcasts in Arabic.”

Israel has been warning for months it plans to send troops into Rafah, the southern city bordering Egypt where more than a million displaced Gaza residents have taken refuge.

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An IDF spokesperson has issued an “urgent appeal to all residents and displaced people” to evacuate a number of neighbourhoods of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

IDF Arabic language spokesperson Avichay Adraee, said the Israeli army called on people in the Al-Salam, Al-Jeneina, Tabet Ziraa and Al-Byouk neighbourhoods to immediately evacuate to the “expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi.”

More on that in a moment, first here’s a summary of the day’s other main events.

• Israeli authorities shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera on Sunday, hours after a government vote to use new laws to close the satellite news network’s operations in the country. Critics called the move a “dark day for the media” and raised new concerns about the attitude to free speech of Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government.

• Senior Israeli officials ramped up pressure on Hamas on Sunday, saying Israel would refuse any permanent end to hostilities and threatening a new onslaught “in the very near future” if the militant organisation did not accept recently proposed terms for a ceasefire. In a televised address, Benjamin Netanyahu once more rejected Hamas’s demands for a definitive end to the war in Gaza, saying that any permanent ceasefire would allow the group to remain in power and pose a continuing threat to Israel.

• Hamas has reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages. In their second day of truce talks in Cairo with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, Hamas negotiators maintained their stance that any truce agreement must end the war, Palestinian officials said.

• Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accused Hamas of showing signs it was not serious about reaching a truce, and said that if this was the case Israel would launch military actions in Rafah and other parts of the Gaza Strip “in the very near future”.