text:  And the Israeli invasion in Rafah, directed at Hamas, has turned that city into a scene of utter devastation. Buildings reduced to rubble, the streets are all chewed up. And, and this is what was striking, there's an absence of Palestinians in Rafah. The journalists spent about three hours there, so they didn't see everything, but they didn't see a single Palestinian. The UN said recently that Rafah's population peaked at about 1.4 million earlier this year.