Israeli military says it was targeting senior Hamas commanders as explosion hits rows of tents sheltering displaced people
It took nearly half an hour for the first ambulances and firefighters to reach the stretch of blazing tents in Kuwait peace camp in Rafah on 26 May.It took nearly half an hour for the first ambulances and firefighters to reach the stretch of blazing tents in Kuwait peace camp in Rafah on 26 May.
He said people tried at first to drag the injured from tents with their bare hands, loading them on to donkey carts or cramming them into ordinary cars to seek help. Eventually nine people were loaded into the small car, which would normally take two people to hospital, with some in the boot.Palestinians walk past smoke rising from a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people in Rafah.He had been with his family in their tent, resting after the Maghrib twilight prayer, when a red flash and an explosion ripped the night apart. Black smoke and a deadly hail of shrapnel followed, then the sound of screaming.
But it was not in an area of Rafah covered by specific evacuation orders that the Israeli military issued through social media, phone calls and leaflets as troops moved in, so the people living there thought it was safe.Agha said: “The missile hit near a medical point surrounded by a lot of tents, in an area with more than 4,000 people.” It seemed unusual because there were no large impact craters on the ground and it sparked the large fire, he added.
Intense bombardment continued through the night, even after the flames died down, and so the next morning they packed and left again. “I remembered the first exodus from my city ,” he said.
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