At least 35 Palestinians, principally displaced girls and youngsters, have been killed Sunday when a barbaric Israeli bombardment focused a Rafah tent camp for displaced folks.
The Gazan Health Ministry mentioned in an announcement that the strikes “claimed the lives of 35 martyrs and left dozens injured, most of them children and women,” whereas the Israeli military claimed it had focused Hamas members.
The media workplace in Gaza earlier mentioned the assault hit a middle run by the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees in Tal al-Sultan close to Rafah, branding it a “horrific massacre.”
Israeli plane focused a number of tents within the space, the media workplace mentioned, including that missiles and a pair of,000-pound bombs have been used.
Earlier, Gaza’s civil protection power mentioned it transported 50 folks, together with lifeless and injured, after the bombing. The focused space sheltered no less than 100,000 displaced folks, it mentioned.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society in a short assertion mentioned its ambulance crews have been transferring the victims to close by medical facilities.
The assault led to fires engulfing the realm a few of that are nonetheless raging, in keeping with witnesses.
“We retrieved a large number of child martyrs from the Israeli bombardment, including a child without a head and children whose bodies have turned into fragments,” a Palestinian paramedic instructed Anadolu.
“The Rafah massacre is a clear message from Israel to the ICJ and the international community that attacks against civilians in Gaza continue,” mentioned the media workplace in its assertion, referring to the International Court of Justice.
A delegated space for displaced folks is lowered to burned rubble after an Israeli strike on Rafah, southern Gaza, Palestine, May 26, 2024. (Reuters Photo)
Deaths throughout Gaza
The workplace additional famous that no less than 190 Palestinians had been killed and injured within the final 24 hours because of the Israeli military’s concentrating on of greater than 10 shelters for displaced folks within the Gaza Strip.
The military had beforehand recognized the camp it bombed in Rafah as being “within the safe zones where displaced people were urged to head.”
The Israeli military admitted late Sunday that there have been civilian casualties within the assault it launched on Rafah.
The military claimed in an announcement that “recently, aircraft attacked a Hamas compound in Rafah.”
“As a result of the attack and the outbreak of a fire in the area, a number of uninvolved individuals were injured, and the incident is under review,” it mentioned.
Following the bloodbath, Israeli warplanes bombed two houses within the metropolis, leading to 5 fatalities and a number of accidents.
This raised the dying toll from Israeli airstrikes on Rafah Sunday night to 35, with dozens extra injured, in keeping with Palestinian medical sources.
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas condemned the bombing.
“The horrific massacre committed by Israel in Rafah a short while ago is a blatant challenge, complete disregard, and defiance of the ICJ’s decision, which demanded it to stop its aggression on Rafah,” it mentioned.
“In a horrifying war crime, the criminal Zionist occupation army committed a heinous massacre against displaced citizens in tents this evening in an area crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people that was declared safe.”
“We hold the U.S. administration and President (Joe) Biden, in particular, fully responsible for this massacre, which the Zionist entity would not have committed without American support and the green light for it to invade Rafah, despite it being overcrowded with displaced citizens,” it mentioned.
“We demand the immediate and urgent implementation of the ICJ’s decisions and pressure to stop this massacre and the shedding of innocent civilians’ blood, including children, women and the elderly,” it added.
Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh additionally slammed the Israeli military’s deliberate concentrating on of the tents of displaced folks in Rafah, the Palestinian news company WAFA reported.
He pressured “the urgent need for intervention to stop the crimes committed against the Palestinian people immediately.”
“The Israeli occupation forces’ commission of this heinous massacre is a challenge to all the resolutions of international legitimacy, particularly the lucid and candid ruling of the ICJ ordering Israel to cease its military offensive against the city of Rafah and provide protection to the Palestinian people,” mentioned Abu Rudeineh.
“The U.S. positions supporting the occupation financially and politically were the main reason for the hideous massacres committed by the occupation, in violation of all taboos,” he added.
Israel has killed almost 36,000 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip since a cross-border incursion by Hamas on Oct. 7 final 12 months killed round 1,200 folks.
The navy marketing campaign has turned a lot of the enclave of two.3 million folks into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless and prone to famine.
The assault comes regardless of a ruling by the International Court of Justice that ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah, the place over 1,000,000 Palestinians had sought refuge from the battle earlier than it was invaded on May 6.
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