Israel has insisted for months that it plans a ground offensive into Rafah, where it says many remaining Hamas militants are holed up, despite international calls for restraint.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.
“This is a world devoid of all human values and morals,” Barhoum said, crying as he cradled Alaa’s body. “The only martyrs were women and children.” An Israeli airstrike also hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Bureji in central Gaza, killing at least one man and injuring two others, according to authorities at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, where an AP journalist saw the casualties.
Thousands protest against the Israeli government and call for a hostage deal with Hamas in Tel Aviv this weekend.The war has sent regional tensions spiralling. On Friday, Israel and archenemy Iran played down an apparent Israeli airstrike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran, indicating they were pulling back from what could have become all-out war.
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