Around 8 am, the IDF issued a forced displacement order covering the Tal al-Sultan area, in southwest Rafah.

At dawn, hours before the announcement, the IDF had struck a PRCS ambulance north of Rafah then hours later, around 8 am, IDF troops surrounded a number of PRCS ambulances and people in Rafah, including some injured by Israeli gunfire.

At 10 am, contact was lost with Civil Defense crews who were on a mission to rescue PRCS crews targeted by the IDF. (As of March 26, contact has sill not been re-established with the crews)

Multiple eyewitnesses recounted that the IDF shot at people during the forced displacement, and struck a bus full of people. A father, displaced from the Saudi neighborhood, also recounted seeing two people being shot dead on the coastal road, and found his own son killed lying on the ground in the "barracks" area.

As is usual for Israel, displacement by vehicles was prohibited, forcing people, ailing, elderly to walk long distances under Israeli gunfire.