PM Netanyahu was convening his war Cabinet on May 26 to discuss continued operations in Rafah.
CAIRO/JERUSALEM – Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.
The spokesman of the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza, Mr Ashraf Al-Qidra, said 35 people were killed and dozens of others, most of them women and children, were wounded in the attack. “The air strikes burned the tents, the tents are melting and the people’s bodies are also melting,” said one of the residents who arrived at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah.
Israeli tanks have probed around the edges of Rafah, near the crossing point from Gaza into Egypt, and have entered some of its eastern districts, residents say, but have not yet entered the city in force since the start of operations in the city earlier in May. Nearly 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s offensive, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. Israel launched the operation after Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israeli communities on Oct 7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
He restated Hamas’ demands, which include “ending the aggression completely and permanently, in all of Gaza Strip, not only Rafah”.
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