Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah as Gaza’s displaced civilians flee again

Israel i tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city, where more than a million people had been sheltering and stoking fears of further civilian casualties.

Hamas’s armed wing said it had destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 missile in the eastern Al-Salam district, killing some crew members and wounding others. They are moving to tracts of land such as Al-Mawasi, a sandy strip bordering the coast that aid agencies say lacks sanitary and other facilities to host an influx of displaced people.

His comment prompted an angry response from Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, who said in a statement that Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing and its military operations in the area were the main obstacles to aid entering Gaza. In the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City in the north, bulldozers demolished clusters of houses to make a new road for tanks to roll through into the eastern suburb.

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