Gazan officials report that at least 35 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Rafah safe zone.

In Rafah, southern Gaza, an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone was struck by the strikes. 

Two Hamas officials were killed in the strike, according to the Israeli military.

Gazan sources said that Israeli attacks on a tent camp in a section of Rafah that Israel’s military had declared a humanitarian safe zone for displaced Palestinians resulted in at least 35 deaths and several injuries.

Muhammad Abu Hani, a civil defense officer in the Gaza Strip, said that the improvised camp was located inside Block 2371 in the southern Gazan city, which was declared a humanitarian zone by Israeli officials on Wednesday. 

The majority of the fatalities were women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which also disclosed the death toll.

Based on “precise intelligence,” the Israeli military announced that it conducted an attack in northwest Rafah on Sunday night. 

It claimed that two top Hamas leaders, including Yassin Rabia, the organization’s commander for operations in the West Bank, were killed in the hit. 

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The Washington Post received confirmation of the two Hamas members’ deaths from Hamas spokesperson Basem Naim.

Following allegations that “several civilians in the area were harmed as a result of the strike and fire that was ignited,” the Israel Defense Forces announced it was investigating the incident.

Photographs shared by regional reporters displayed burnt corpses being extracted from the blazing ruins of the crowded camp in the Tal al-Sultan district.

Israel has been moving farther inside Rafah in recent weeks, claiming that the military operation is required to destroy the last remaining Hamas brigades.

Doctors Without Borders posted on X, saying, “We are horrified by this deadly event, which shows once again that nowhere is safe.” 

The medical group reported that several injured people and over 15 deceased were sent to a trauma stabilization facility that it supports.

The UN special rapporteur on the right to appropriate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, wrote on X, calling for “concerted global action to stop Israel’s actions now.” 

“Attacking women and children while they cower in their shelters in Rafah is a monstrous atrocity.”

The event demonstrated “dilligence in the targeting of defenseless civilians and the systemic policy that aims to expand the killing and destruction in the Gaza Strip so as to make it uninhabitable,” Egypt said in a statement denouncing the strike.

Concerned that the shelling might “complicate ongoing mediation efforts and thwart reaching an agreement for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip,” in addition to the release of captives, Qatar referred to the strike as “a dangerous breach of international laws.” 

In talks between Israel and Hamas, mediators from both Egypt and Qatar have participated.

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced late on Sunday that other hospitals were reporting the similar situation, with its field hospital in Rafah seeing an increase in patients seeking care for burns and other injuries.

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Regarding the strikes on Rafah, EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell charged that Israel was continuing with “military action that has been asked to stop.” 

Speaking to reporters prior to a meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, Borrell stated that the number of casualties from the assault on the humanitarian zone presented a “dilemma” for the international community regarding how to compel the application of the ruling made by the International Court of Justice on Friday, which halted Israel’s Rafah offensive immediately.

According to the IDF, eight rockets were fired on Sunday at central Israel from Rafah, and several of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome defensive system. 

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed to have fired missiles on Tel Aviv in retaliation for “massacres perpetrated on civilians.”

extreme right The Post revealed that Israeli settlers have increased their attacks on relief trucks traveling through the West Bank, tracking the vehicles and coordinating attacks using a network of openly available WhatsApp groups.

Since the start of the conflict, at least 35,984 people have died and 80,643 have been injured in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. 

The ministry does not make a distinction between fighters and civilians, although it does state that women and children make up the bulk of the deceased. 

Israel claims that 282 troops have died since Hamas began its military campaign in Gaza, and it estimates that 1,200 Palestinians, including over 300 soldiers, were murdered in the group’s Oct. 7 offensive.

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