Israel continues to pursue its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Palestinian medics carry a child hurt in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp
The strike late on Friday hit a residential building in the western Tel Sultan neighbourhood of the city of Rafah, according to Gaza’s civil defence. The bodies of the six children, two women and a man were taken to Rafah’s Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, the hospital’s records showed. “This is a world devoid of all human values and morals,” Mr Barhoum told The Associated Press on Saturday morning, crying as he cradled and gently rocked Alaa’s body in his arms. “They bombed a house full of displaced people, women and children. There were no martyrs but women and children.”Rafah, which lies on the border with Egypt, currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s total population of about 2.
The war was sparked by an unprecedented raid into southern Israel by Hamas and other militant groups on October 7 that left about 1,200 people dead, the vast majority of them civilians, and saw about 250 people kidnapped and taken into Gaza. Israel says about 130 hostages remain in Gaza, although more than 30 have been confirmed to now be dead, either killed on October 7 or having died in captivity.
On Friday, both Iran and Israel played down an apparent Israeli air strike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran, indicating the two sides were pulling back from what could have become an all-out conflict. Over the past several weeks, an alleged Israeli strike killed two Iranian generals at an Iranian consulate in Syria and was followed by an unprecedented Iranian missile barrage on Israel.
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