The Nation Newspaper Israeli airstrikes kill at least 35 in Rafah
Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.
The spokesperson for Gaza’s Health Ministry, Ashraf Al-Qidra, said 35 people were killed and dozens others, most of them women and children, were wounded in the attack. “The airstrikes burnt the tents, the tents are melting and the people’s bodies are also melting,” said one of the residents who arrived at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.
Israeli tanks have probed around the edges of Rafah, near the crossing point from Gaza into Egypt, and have entered some of its eastern districts, residents say, but have not yet entered the city in force since the start of operations in the city earlier this month.Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said the rockets fired from Rafah “prove that the must operate in every place Hamas still operates from.
Fighting also continued in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya, the scene of intense combat earlier in the war. During one raid, the military said it found a weapons storage site with dozens of rocket parts and weapons at a school.Hamas media said an Israeli airstrike on a house in a neighborhood near Jabaliya killed 10 people and wounded others.
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