Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s airstrike on a camp for displaced people in Rafah that killed at least 45 people, many of whom were women and children. Follow for live updates.
Palestinian officials said at least 29 people were killed Tuesday by two Israeli strikes at displacement camps in the southern Gaza city. Israeli tanks have been seen into transport aid into Gaza broke apart in heavy seas Tuesday in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies, according to US officials.
“I am speechless, I cannot even describe what is happening. We are scared for ourselves and for our children. We are not expecting this to happen so suddenly,” she added. Video from the stringer shows mattresses, wooden panels, chairs, and various other belongings piled on top of vehicles and donkey carts.
Walking on crutches, Mohamed Jarbou, said, “The elderly have been humiliated. Children humiliated. What’s wrong? They are all civilians. The resistance is not here. The resistance is fighting somewhere else. We are displaced. Why are you hitting the displaced people?” He also said Israel is assessing social media footage from the night of the strike that appears to show secondary explosions.
Hagari said the incident was being investigated by the General Staff’s Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism who he said would conduct a transparent investigation. “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you,” some protesters could be heard shouting during the second night of large Paris protests. In Italy, at least 1,000 protesters occupied Bologna’s main train station, according to the authority of the train station.
At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a fire broke out at the camp following the strike on Sunday, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics. “Health facilities there continue to face dire shortages of fuel and medical supplies while having to cope with a rising influx of casualties due to injuries and burns,” UNOCHA statement added.
“In stark contrast to Hamas’ intentional attacks on Israeli men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm,” the IDF added.UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said his staff are “terrified” and are packing up and moving following strikes in Tal al-Sultan in the early hours of Tuesday.
Al-Ashqar’s daughter Ayat said she ran out of their tent to check on their neighbors, some of whom were her relatives, only to find them dead on the ground.“I was so terrified to see the remains of people. We have been displaced and living in nylon tents. We see remains and body parts of martyrs, we see the strikes and shrapnel hitting us. If we were in our homes, we wouldn’t be afraid of shrapnel. But inside tents, any shrapnel can hit us and even burn us,” Ayat continued.
“I think no one wanted to tell me because I’m pregnant. So I came by this morning and saw that my brother and his wife were killed,” she said.CNN stringer video from the scene shows dozens of people dismantling the remains of their makeshift tents, gathering what’s left of their belongings and loading them onto trucks and donkey carts. They told a CNN stringer on the ground that they are forced to flee again, some for the sixth time, out of fear of being killed.
The setback came one day after heavy seas forced two small US Army vessels to beach in Israel, according to US Central Command, while another two vessels broke free of their moorings and were anchored near the pier. Heavier sea conditions delayed the deployment of the pier for several weeks, as the system sat docked in the Israeli port of Ashdod waiting for favorable conditions.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Rafah over the weekend,” Miller said at a briefing, calling the images from the scene “heart breaking.” “The IDF is continuing to investigate this matter promised that its investigation will be swift, comprehensive and transparent. We will be watching those results closely. And we will continue to emphasize to Israel their obligation to comply fully with international humanitarian law, minimize the impact of their operations on civilians, and maximize the flow of humanitarian assistance to those in need,” he said.
Video from CNN’s stringer on the ground shows displaced people dismantling their makeshift living arrangements in Tal al-Sultan camp, and gathering their belongings and evacuating the area on trucks and donkey carts. “There are still Hamas battalions in Rafah. A couple of days ago, launchers from Rafah fired to Tel Aviv, millions of people went into bomb shelters,” he said, referring to an attack Sunday claimed by Hamas.
Hagari showed aerial footage of a strike on a structure, in which, he says senior Hamas commanders were meeting. He added that the strike used two munitions with small warheads with 17 kilos munitions – “the smallest munitions that our jets could use.” “These operations must stop, as the International Court of Justice demanded,” the ministry said, adding that a new resolution is “more necessary than ever.”
A Rafah resident, Alaa Abu Ibrahim, told CNN that Israeli tanks were seen in Al Awda roundabout in the center of the city. “We had wanted to recognise Palestine at the end of a peace process. However we have made this move alongside Spain and Norway to keep the miracle of peace alive,” Prime Minister Simon Harris said.
Hundreds of aid trucks have not yet been picked up by UN agencies for distribution inside the territory, COGAT said. The UN have said the retrieval and distribution of aid remains difficult due to the conditions on the ground. “The international community must increase its political and economic support for Palestine and continue the work for a two-state solution,” he added.
A government meeting on Thursday will consider forwarding “the recognition of Palestine” to the country’s legislature for approval, Golob in a On Sunday, Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon told Al Jazeera: “We’ve decided we have a moral duty, at least a symbolic duty, to give hope to Palestinians with this further step on recognition.” Fajon added there is a need to help “reform Palestinian authorities in Ramallah to be able, one day, also to control Gaza,” as she also expressed hope that “other countries will follow us.
Spain will approve the official recognition of a Palestinian state today, Sanchez said, just before his cabinet was due to meet to take that step. “One of the conclusions is to convene a meeting of the EU Israeli Association council to raise our grave concerns, and to put it to Israel, and to seek from Israel a response in terms of complying with the orders of the court.”
Israel had ordered thousands of civilians to leave some areas of Rafah as it intensified its military operations in the city.Israel has vowed to press on with its Rafah offensive despite international outrage and a US warning not to proceed. The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to “The reality is that no matter how many countries sign up for this, endorsing a virtual state is not going to bring Israelis and Palestinians any closer to a comprehensive conflict-ending solution,” Aaron David Miller, also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNN’s Rosemary Church.
“I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet: They’re not going to get our support, if in fact they go on these population centers,” Biden added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Israel’s strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday killed at least 45 people and wounded 200 others. It isBiden is yet to comment publicly on Sunday’s strike.
Israeli artillery shelling targeting a tent of displaced people in Tal al-Sultan, northwest of Rafah, killed three people and wounded several others, Wafa reported.International outcry is mounting over Israel’s airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah that killed at least 45 people and wounded 200 others,Footage obtained by CNN showed the camp in flames, with scores of men, women and children frantically trying to find cover from the nighttime assault.
“The vast destruction of housing and civil infrastructure and the resultant rubble has curtailed any possibility of movement that is essential to escape, evacuate and seek protection,” the committee said. “We warn against compromising the security and safety of Egyptian security personnel deployed on the border,” the source said, as cited by Al-Qahera News.The relationship between Egypt and Israel became tense after Israeli troops moved into an area known as the Philadelphi Corridor and took control of the Rafah crossing earlier this month. The corridor is a 14-kilometer long and 100-meter-wide strip along the border between Gaza and Egypt.
Speaking in Hebrew to the Knesset, Netanyahu said he would not “surrender” or “end the war before all its objectives are completed.” Speaking Monday alongside the Irish and Norwegian foreign ministers at a news conference in Brussels, Albares said he would ask the other 26 EU members to declare their backing of the ICJ’s decision and that, if Israel opposes the court’s decision, “to take the right measures to enforce that decision and to back one of the most important bodies of the UN charter.
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