The Hamas Ministry of Health reports a death toll of 45, following an Israeli strike on a camp for displaced people near Rafah on Sunday.
In a new report released Monday, the Hamas Ministry of Health said an Israeli airstrike killed at least 45 people and injured 249 on Sunday in a camp for displaced people near Rafah, in the south of the Strip. Gaza.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a message on “There are reports of mass casualties, including children and women.”
The attacks came two days after the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents had found refuge before the Israeli incursion earlier this month. Tens of thousands of people remain in the area, while many others have fled.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying it hit a Hamas facility and killed two high-ranking militants of the Islamic organization.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent said the death toll was likely to rise as search and rescue operations continued.
Claiming that the location targeted by the strike had been designated by Israel as a “humanitarian zone”. The neighborhood is not one of the areas the Israeli army ordered evacuated earlier this month.
Several countries, such as Jordan, Turkey and France, have condemned this attack.
Rocket fire on Israel
The airstrike was reported hours after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza that set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months.
No casualties were reported in what appears to be the first long-range attack from Gaza since January. Hamas’ military wing claimed responsibility for the attack. The Israeli military said eight projectiles entered Israel after being launched from Rafah, a number of them were intercepted and the launcher was destroyed.
