According to health authorities, fresh Israeli strikes on a tent area close to Rafah have resulted in about 21 Palestinian deaths and numerous injuries.
Rafah is “hell on earth,” according to a senior UN official, after residents were “burnt to death” in an Israeli bombardment that claimed the lives of at least 45 people.
According to Palestinian health sources, fresh Israeli strikes on a tent area west of Rafah have resulted in about 21 Palestinian deaths and numerous injuries.
The strikes targeted tents of displaced families in the designated humanitarian area in Mawasi in western Rafah, medics and residents told Reuters.
At least 12 of those killed were women, medical officials said.
It comes after Israeli strikes on Rafah killed at least 16 Palestinians, as residents reported an escalation of fighting in the city in southern Gaza.
Those strikes took place in the same area where Israel targeted what it said was a Hamas compound on Sunday night – in an attack that ignited a fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians and killed at least 45 people, according to local health officials.
(Sky New)