Islamist group Hamas has accused Israel of carrying out a “massacre against unarmed civilians” in Rafah, home to more than a million displaced Gazans, during this morning’s rescue operation of two Israeli hostages.
The Islamist group Hamas has accused Israel of committing a crime “massacre against unarmed civilians” in Rafah, home to over a million displaced people from Gaza, during the rescue operation this morning of two Israeli hostages.
“Tonight’s attack by the Israeli army in Rafah and the horrific massacres of unarmed civilians, including displaced children, women and the elderly, that have so far has caused more than 100 martyrs, “It is a continuation of the genocide and attempted forced displacement against our Palestinian people,” the Islamist group said in a statement.
And the Israeli forces rescued in Rafah this morning two hostagesFernando Simón Marman, 60, and Norberto Louis Har, 70, both kidnapped on October 7.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari has indicated that the rescue operation in a building in the heart of Rafah was carried out with the support of “intense firepower” from the air force; and that about fifty ‘terrorists’ were killed in the area, with no casualties in the Israeli ranks.
Hamas has denounced the “deepening of genocide” in Rafah, given the “tragic conditions” in which 1.4 million Gazans – more than a million of them displaced – live in that city, whose “streets have become fields of refugees those in extremely difficult and harsh circumstances, without their most basic needs being met.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan this weekend expand the military ground offensive in Rafahalthough he promised to evacuate civilians first, something difficult in a completely destroyed enclave with its armored borders.
Since the outbreak of the war more than four months ago, the offensive on Gaza has resulted in… more than 28,100 Palestinians killed
Source: EITB
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