The strike came two days after the International Court of Justice issued a ruling ordering Israel to halt its operations in the name of sparing civilians.
Medics prepare the bodies of Gazans killed in an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced Palestinians at a hospital in Rafah on May 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas.t least 35 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a camp for displaced people in the southern city of Rafah late Sunday, the Hamas-run ministry of health said.
Israel’s military is pressing ahead with its operations against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah despite the International Court ruling. Officials say they interpret Friday’s ruling in The Hague as permitting the incursion to continue as long as it’s done with care, adding that the military is carrying out targeted strikes in Rafah, far short of a full invasion.
The wording of the sentence has led to diverging interpretations. Many regard it as as an order to stop the offensive, and that’s how it was widely reported on Friday. But Israeli officials say the order is conditional — that their military must stop any action that could destroy civilians. It was the first such volley of missiles to reach Tel Aviv in months, a sign, military spokesmen said, that Hamas has been smuggling new weapons into Rafah from Egypt and a key reason why Israel contends it needs to send its forces there.
The strain with the U.S., which has built over the course of the seven-month war in Gaza, has intensified over Rafah. Some 1.4 million Palestinians were sheltering in Rafah when Israel said they should move to safer areas within the coastal enclave in preparation for its invasion, which is aimed at taking out what it says are the four remaining Hamas battalions there.
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