Israel targted children and women on Sunday night when it bombed tent camps in northern Rafah in the Gaza Strip that were “said to be safe,”causing death to at least 45, Al Jazeera reported in its latest updates. Bombs hit the Tal as-Sultan camp which was housing thousands of displaced Palestinians, as well as other areas including Jabalia, Nuseirat, and Gaza City, killing at least 160.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that “Israeli occupation” troops carried out this new attack in a purportedly protected neighborhood, displacing hundreds more people again in the dark.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that its workers carried out a “huge number” of corpses and injured people after the IDF targeted the displaced people’s tents in Rafah.
The attack occurred after the Israeli Knesset approved a preliminary reading of a law designating “UNRWA” as a “terrorist organization,” Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza reported.
Eyewitnesses stated that the shelling wrecked and burned a large number of tents in the Rafah camp. According to Al Jazeera’s correspondent, emergency staff were unable to remove the burnt bodies after Israel’s relentless shelling of the camp.
Israel, currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, has waged a scorched-earth war on Gaza since October 7.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which began on October 7, has killed 35,984 Palestinians and injured 80,643.
All across the Strip, at least 7,000 individuals remain unaccounted for, feared dead under the wreckage of their razed homes.
According to Palestinian and international groups, women and children account for the vast majority of those murdered and injured.
Israel’s war has caused extreme hunger, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of numerous Palestinians, especially children.
Nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip have been displaced, with the vast majority of those displaced being forced into the densely populated southern city of Rafah, near the Egyptian border, creating what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.