CAIRO, June 19 —Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah today, killing eight people, according to residents and Palestinian medics.
Israeli forces have laid waste to much of Gaza and seized most of the Palestinian territory but have yet to achieve their stated goal of wiping out Hamas and freeing Israeli hostages.Medics and Hamas media said eight Palestinians were killed in Al-Mawasi and many families fled north in panic. They did not identify the fatalities and the Israeli military said it was looking into the report.
“Bullets and shells landed in the Mawasi area near where people slept, killing and wounding many,” he told Reuters via a chat app. The Israeli military remained in control of the borderline between Rafah and Egypt. Footage circulated on social media showed the Rafah crossing, the only window for most of Gaza’s population with the outside world, was destroyed, buildings burnt, and Israeli tanks positioned there with the flag of Israel flying over some places.
Later today, Palestinian gunmen fired rockets at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said. Since a week-long truce in November, repeated attempts to arrange a ceasefire have failed, with Hamas insisting on an end to the war and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Netanyahu refuses to end the war before Hamas is eradicated and the hostages are freed.
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