About 100,000 people are being directed to head to an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi.
After seven months of war, Israel says it must take Rafah to defeat Hamas.
But the UN and US warn that an assault on the city, where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, could have catastrophic consequences.
A senior Hamas official called the evacuation order a "dangerous escalation".
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