NJ residents with family in Rafah demand elected officials take action. “We are here to let everyone here in America know what is happening to Palestinians in Rafah,” said Piscataway resident Najla Khass. During a news conference Thursday with pro-Palestinian advocates, Khass said a dozen of her family members in Rafah are sheltering in a tent as a ground invasion is threatened by Israel of this last refuge for Palestinian evacuees displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.