Xinhua and WAFA news agencies reported that at least 25 Palestinian refugees were killed in bombings on the 11th in Rafah, southern Gaza, where 44 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
According to the media, a bomb fell on a house in Rafah, Gaza Strip, killing about 20 refugees inside and injuring dozens of others.
The Hamas-run WAFA news agency warned that if Israel continued its military operation against Rafah, a “massive disaster” would occur.
Earlier, Mayor Rafa Ahmed Al-Sufi expressed concern the previous day, saying, “Israeli airstrikes have expanded in recent hours, opening the way for an operation to enter the city.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to prepare for ground operations in Rafah on the 9th.
More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has flocked to Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, for safety since the war between the Israeli army and Hamas broke out on October 7 last year.
More Palestinian refugees fled to Rafah as the Israeli army launched a large-scale offensive in neighboring Khan Yunis.
In Rafah, which borders Egypt, foreign countries and UN aid organizations are supplying large amounts of food and medical aid through checkpoints.
Refugees from the north are staying in temporary barracks set up in empty farmland, in schools, and along roadsides.
At least 44 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the 10th, hours after Prime Minister Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents from Rafah ahead of the ground operation.
Israel has been bombing Rafah almost every day these days.
28 people were killed in three airstrikes on residential areas in the Rafah area. Among them were 10 children, including a 3-month-old infant.
Mayor al-Sufi said an airstrike on another house in Rafah killed at least 11 people, including three children.
La Paz city officials claimed that five police officers were also killed in two other aerial attacks.
Source: Donga
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