URL rewrite for subdirectory

Hi,

I am trying something with .htaccess and I am not sure if it is possible at all. I am building a website with multiple sections (not categories).

website.com/section1/
website.com/section2/
website.com/section3/

I will have dozens, maybe hundreds of sections like this. I want to put all the section folders in one single folder “sections” so that the root directory will not be a mess.

/images/
/includes/
/sections/
index.php
style.css

Now, I tried the following rewrite rule

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ sections/$1

This redirects

website.com/section1/

to

website.com/sections/section1/

And in the address bar the URL is as shown above. Is there a way to remove “sections” from this URL with my current setup?