CAIRO/GAZA: Israel's military denied striking a tent camp west of the city of Rafah on Tuesday (May 28) after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in what Isra
Palestinians put out a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2024. Israeli tanks advance to Rafah's centre for the first timeGaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there
But Israel's military later said in a statement:"Contrary to the reports from the last few hours, the IDF did not strike in the Humanitarian Area in Al-Mawasi."Tuesday's incident in Al-Mawasi occurred in an area designated by Israel as an expanded humanitarian zone. Israel had urged Palestinian civilians in Rafah, including around one million displaced by the almost eight-month-old war, to evacuate there when it launched its incursion in early May.
Global leaders voiced horror at the fire in a designated"humanitarian zone" of Rafah where families uprooted by fighting elsewhere had sought shelter and urged the implementation of a World Court order last week for a halt to Israel's assault.The Israeli military said it was investigating the possibility that munitions stored near a compound targeted by Sunday's airstrike may have ignited and touched off the blaze.
In a further blow to aid efforts, a part of the US military's pier off Gaza's coast has broken off, probably due to bad weather, rendering it temporarily inoperable, two US officials said. The United Nations has transported 137 trucks of aid from the pier since it began operations two weeks ago. On Tuesday, witnesses also reported gunbattle between Israeli troops and Hamas-led fighters in the area of the Zurub hilltop in western Rafah.Witnesses in central Rafah said the Israeli military appeared to have brought in remote-operated armoured vehicles and there was no immediate sign of personnel in or around them. An Israeli military spokesperson had no immediate comment.
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