RAFAH: A wounded Palestinian in a hospital in Rafah on Saturday. Photo: Hatem Ali / AP
According to the news agency AP, at least 13 children are among those killed.
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- 44 Palestinians, including at least 13 children, are killed in airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given orders for a possible ground invasion
- The citizens of Rafah are in panic and fear further attacks
- Norway warns against Israeli entry into Rafah
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The airstrike comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to prepare a plan to evacuate the population before a ground invasion ground invasion A military operation in which soldiers enter an area or country on the ground to take control of it. of the city, which is on the border with Egypt.
The news has caused panic among the residents of Rafah, a city that already hosts many internally displaced persons who have been forced to flee their homes but are still within their own country’s borders. from other parts of Gaza.
Fadel al-Ghannam narrates AP that one of the attacks on Saturday tore his loved ones to shreds. He lost his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren.
Now he fears the worst of a ground invasion of Rafah. Ghannam believes the world’s silence allows Israel to advance.
THE WOUND: A Palestinian woman is examined by a doctor after an attack in Rafah on Saturday 10 February. Photo: Hatem Ali / AP / NTB
Later on Saturday, at least eleven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on another home in Rafah. Among those killed were three children, according to Ahemd al-Soufi, the head of the Rafah municipality. The dead were taken to the Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital, according to an AP journalist there.
– This is what Netanyahu is attacking – the civilians, says neighbor Samir Abu Loulya.
Population growth in Rafah has gone from 250,000 to 1.5 million people in just three months. Here you can see the difference:
MASSIVE CHANGE: A satellite image of Rafah taken on October 13 last year compared to an image taken on January 14 this year.Planet Labs PBC / AP / NTB
Panic
Netanyahu’s Rafah order triggered strong warnings from Norway, among others.
People do not know where to flee if they have to travel again.
The Egyptians have made it clear that they will not let in large numbers of Palestinian refugees.
– Any Israeli advance in Rafah means massacres. People fill every inch of the city, and we have nowhere to go, says internally displaced 35-year-old Rezik Salah to the AP news agency.
DESTROYED: A Palestinian man searches for his belongings in the rubble after an Israeli bomb attack in Rafah on Saturday. Photo: Fatima Shbair / AP / NTB
Israel: Two Hamas members killed
On the night of Saturday, at least 28 people were killed in three airstrikes on residential buildings in the Rafah area, according to health officials and AP journalists who saw the bodies when they arrived at the hospital.
Each attack killed several members of three families, among them ten children. The youngest was three months old.
Two other airstrikes killed two policemen and three high-ranking civil police officers, according to city authorities.
Israel says the Israeli Air Force killed two Hamas members in Rafah on Saturday. According to Israel, one was responsible for the security of Hamas leaders, while the other was a senior investigator for Hamas, which holds government power in Gaza. A third investigator in Rafah was also killed, Israel said in the statement without elaborating.
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Published: 10.02.24 at 22:59
Updated: 10.02.24 at 23:37
2024-02-10 21:59:56
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