2024-05-27 15:41:58
The Israeli army said it launched airstrikes on a camp Hamas in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, and that it is aware of reports that 35 were killed and dozens of civilians were injured.
The Gaza Civil Defense confirmed the attack on that center, and indicated that it houses about 100,000 people, and the Palestinian Red Crescent indicated that the place “had been designated by the occupation [israelí] as a humanitarian zone”.
The Israeli military said its plane “striked a Hamas compound in Rafah,” killing Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar, both senior officials of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the occupied West Bank.
Both men were involved in Hamas activities in the West Bank, including planning attacks and transferring funds, while Nagar also managed funds intended for the group’s operations in Gaza, according to the military.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the offensive, ahead of a war cabinet meeting amid intense diplomacy to forge a truce and a hostage release deal.
Ahead of the meeting, Netanyahu’s office said that Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar “continues to demand an end to the war, the withdrawal of the IDF (army) from the Gaza Strip and leaving Hamas in the place, so that it can carry out the atrocities of October 7 again and again.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu is firmly opposed to this,” a statement said.
The Israeli army confirmed an attack “against legitimate targets according to international law”
Israel’s military said its plane “striked a Hamas compound in Rafah where top Hamas terrorists were operating.”
“The attack was carried out against legitimate targets under international law, using precise munitions and based on precise intelligence indicating Hamas’ use of the area,” he added.
The Israeli military said it “is aware of reports indicating that, as a result of the attack and the fire that was started, several civilians in the area were injured.”
Hamas called on Palestinians to “rise and march”
“In the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation army has bombed and attacked more than ten centers for displaced people in Jabalia, Nuseirat, Gaza and Rafá (…). The last of these attacks has been a terrible massacre that was perpetrated in the Barakasat displaced persons center,” the Gazan government said in a statement.
The text recalls that the Israeli authorities “had designated these areas as safe zones and had asked citizens and displaced people to go to those areas.”
“These ongoing massacres against civilians and displaced persons confirm without a doubt that we are facing the crime of genocide with premeditation and that the occupation army deliberately inflicts the greatest possible number of deaths among civilians and displaced persons who fled the fires of war.” , they denounced.
The Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, called on Palestinians to “rise up and march” against the “massacre” in Rafah.
“In light of the horrific Zionist massacre committed this afternoon by the criminal occupation army against the tents of the displaced… we call on the masses of our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied territories and abroad to get up and go,” Hamas said.
The Palestinian presidency accused Israel of deliberately attacking a center for displaced people in the city of Rafah
“The perpetration of this heinous massacre by the Israeli occupation forces is a challenge to all international resolutions of legitimacy,” the presidency said in a statement, accusing Israeli forces of “deliberately attacking” the tents of the displaced.
Gaza reports at least 35 dead in Israeli attack
The Gaza Ministry said in a statement that the Israeli attacks “claimed the lives of 35 martyrs and left dozens injured, most of them children and women.”
The Hamas-run government’s media office said that “the Israeli occupation committed a horrific massacre by heavily and intentionally shelling the UNRWA Barkasat displacement center northwest of Rafah governorate,” referring to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
The attacks “led to the death of 30 martyrs and dozens of injuries,” he said, adding that Israeli forces bombed the UNRWA center with “seven missiles.”
Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes had killed and wounded at least 50 people in the area, where it said 100,000 displaced people live.
The ICRC said one of its field hospitals was receiving “an influx of victims seeking care for wounds and burns” and reported that other hospitals were also receiving large numbers of patients.
“Our teams are doing everything possible to save lives,” the ICRC said in a statement.
Attacks were also reported in other areas of Rafah on Sunday night, and the Kuwait Specialized Hospital said it had received the bodies of three people, including a pregnant woman.