RAFAH, Gaza: Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday (May 30), after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt. Israel launched its military incursion into
Palestinians who returned briefly to the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to check on their homes run for cover after an Israeli strike on May 30, 2024 RAFAH, Gaza : Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday , after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt.
"Israel is using these allegations to justify continuing the operation on the Palestinian city of Rafah and prolonging the war for political purposes," a high-level Egyptian source was quoted as saying by state-linked Al-Qahera News. On the ground in Gaza, witnesses reported fighting in central and western Rafah and bombardment in the east that killed at least five people near an aid warehouse.
Witnesses said Israeli forces demolished buildings in east Rafah where the Israeli incursion began on May 7, initially focusing on the vital Rafah border crossing, a key entry point for aid. The Israeli military said it struck more than 50 targets across Gaza while its troops found weapons, explosives and tunnel shafts in Rafah, and battled militants in Jabalia.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 36,224 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.Israel's National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said the war could go on until the year's end.
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