“Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size,” Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters about the Rafah strike.
Palestinians fled from areas of Rafah amid bombardments, as the number of displaced people rose following a deadly Israeli strike at a tent camp on May 26. “Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size,” he said, adding that the ongoing investigation was looking into the possibility that “secondary explosions” linked to “weapons stored in a compound next to our target,” may have ignited the deadly blaze.
said Israeli operations appeared to have expanded overnight into built-up areas in the west of the city. “They have fired shells into areas way outside the evacuation zone,” UNRWA’s Sam Rose told The Washington Post, referring to Israeli tanks. Rose added that a shell hit a mosque near the refugee agency’s offices in central Rafah.
Egypt is investigating a shooting incident in the Rafah border area that killed a member of its security forces
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