🔴 Live: Israel intensifies air strikes on Rafah ahead of ground assault

Israeli air strikes pummelled densely crowded Rafah on Saturday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his troops to "prepare to operate" in the southern border city that has become a last refuge for displaced Palestinians. Israeli strikes also targeted a "residential building" west of the Syrian capital early Saturday, a war monitor said, with state media reporting Syrian air defences responded to an Israeli "air attack". Read our live blog for all the latest developments