Palestinian Red Crescent Society: An Israeli attack in Rafah claimed 35 lives.

According to Palestinian health officials, Israeli airstrikes on Sunday destroyed displaced people’s tents in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, killing at least 35 people. Several more people were reportedly trapped in smouldering rubble. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the majority of the wounded and deceased were women and children.

The attacks took place two days after Israel was ordered to cease its military offensive in Rafah, where before to Israel’s incursion earlier this month, over half of Gaza’s population had taken refuge. Many have gone, leaving tens of thousands of people in the region.

Heavy damage was shown in video captured from the location of the biggest airstrike. The Israeli army verified the attack and reported that it killed two top Hamas members and struck a Hamas facility. It declared that it was looking into claims of damage to civilians. According to his office, Yoav Gallant, the minister of defence, was briefed on the “deepening of operations” in Rafah on Sunday.

The number of fatalities is expected to increase, according to a Palestinian Red Crescent Society spokesman, as search and rescue operations in Rafah’s Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, which is located around two kilometres (1.2 miles) northwest of the city centre, continue.

The group claimed that Israel had declared the region to be a “humanitarian area.” The neighbourhood is not among the neighbourhoods that were ordered to be evacuated earlier this month by the Israeli military.

After more than seven months of Israel’s huge air, sea, and ground offensive, Hamas demonstrated resilience by firing a volley of missiles from Gaza, setting off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months. Hours later, the airstrike was confirmed.

This seemed to be Gaza’s first long-range rocket launch since January, with no reports of casualties. The military branch of Hamas took credit. According to the Israeli military, eight rockets that were fired from Rafah crossed into Israel; “a number” of them were intercepted, and the launcher was destroyed.

After Israeli forces captured the Palestinian side of the Rafah border earlier this month, dozens of relief vehicles entered Gaza from southern Israel early on Sunday as part of a new arrangement to avoid using that crossing. According to the Israeli military, 126 relief trucks crossed at the neighbouring Kerem Shalom border.

However, due of the conflict, it was not immediately clear if humanitarian organisations could get the goods, including medical supplies. Due to Israel’s offensive in Rafah, the crossing has been essentially unusable. According to UN agencies, retrieving aid is typically too risky. An further Israeli incursion in Rafah would have a “disastrous” consequences, according to the World Health Organisation last week.

The spokeswoman for U.N. chief Antonio Guterres stated in a statement, “With the humanitarian operation near collapse, the secretary-general emphasises that the Israeli authorities must facilitate the safe pickup and delivery of humanitarian supplies from Egypt entering Kerem Shalom.”

Egypt will not restore its portion of the Rafah crossing until the Palestinians regain control of the Gaza side. Following a phone conversation between US President Joe Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, it consented to temporarily reroute traffic through Gaza’s primary cargo terminal, Kerem Shalom.

Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its tally, reports that the conflict between Israel and Hamas has claimed the lives of around 36,000 Palestinians. Israel accuses Hamas of causing civilian casualties because the militant group operates in dense residential areas.

Approximately 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have left their homes, there is widespread extreme hunger, and according to U.N. authorities, famine is occurring in several areas of the enclave.

With their invasion into Israel on October 7, during which Palestinian militants killed over 1,200 people—mostly civilians—and took about 250 hostages, Hamas started the conflict. After the majority of the hostages were freed during a cease-fire last year, Hamas still holds over 100 hostages and the bodies of about thirty more.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, has declared that Israel must seize control of Rafah in order to destroy the last battalions of Hamas and win “total victory” over the terrorists, who have regrouped in several areas of Gaza.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, tensions have also increased as a result of the war. According to Palestinian officials, a 14-year-old kid was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Sunday in the village of Saeer in the southern West Bank. According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian man attempted to stab Israeli police at Beit Einun Junction before being shot and killed.

PARTICULARLY CUT OFF FROM AID IN SOUTHERN GAZA
Aid to the southern Gaza region has been mainly blocked since Israel began what it described as a modest invasion into Rafah on May 6. More than a million Palestinians—many of whom had previously been displaced—have left the city since then.

Two land routes that Israel established in response to international outcry after Israeli attacks killed seven relief workers in April are used to transport aid to Northern Gaza.

Fewer than half of the 150 trucks per day that officials had intended for pass through a floating pier constructed by the United States to enter Gaza every day. Aid organisations claim that 600 trucks are required daily.

MAN DETAINED IN ISRAEL OVER MUTINY THREAT
In response to a widely shared video of a man in uniform threatening mutiny, the Israeli military said that it had arrested a suspect. The individual claims that tens of thousands of soldiers swore allegiance to Netanyahu and were prepared to defy the defence minister’s recommendation that the Palestinians should run Gaza after the conflict.

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli military, stated that the individual has been taken from reserve duty. The location and date of the video’s creation were unclear.In a brief statement, the prime minister’s office denounced military insubordination in all its manifestations.

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