Survivors described a terrifying scene of tents in flames and burn victims. A doctor said that of the killed and wounded he saw, a majority were women and children.
Witnesses and survivors described a terrifying scene of tents in flames and burn victims after what the Gaza Health Ministry said was an Israeli strike on a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike where displaced people were staying in Rafah.The Israeli military said that it had aimed a strike at a Hamas compound and killed two Hamas leaders.
“The fire was very strong and was all over the camp,” he said. “There was darkness and no electricity.” Palestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed by the Israeli airstrike, at a morgue in Rafah.UNRWA, the main United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, described on the social media platform X what it called a “horrifying” attack and said the images emerging from the site were “yet another testament” that Gaza is “hell on earth.
Dr Marwan al-Hams, who was at the Tal Al Sultan Health Center in Rafah where many of the casualties first arrived before being transferred to nearby field hospitals, said that of the killed and wounded he saw, a majority were women and children.
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