By Deutsche Welle
May 27, 2024, 18:19 PM EDT
Israel said it was investigating the “serious and terrible” impact on Palestinian civilians of an Israeli bombing raid on Gaza the previous night that the military said targeted Hamas operatives.
“We are investigating,” said government spokesman Avi Hyman, after Gaza authorities reported 45 dead in a displaced persons camp. “Any loss of life, of civilian life, is serious and terrible. “We try to pursue Hamas and limit civilian casualties,” he added.
The attack on a refugee camp
The first conclusions of Israel’s investigation into the attack near a displaced persons camp in Rafah, in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, indicate that the majority of the fatalities, fifty, died as a result of the fire that broke out. after the bombing.
“The majority of the victims are due to a fire,” said Israeli Government spokesman Avi Hyman in his daily press conference on Monday. For his part, the Army Attorney General has ordered a more exhaustive investigation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to this issue before the Israeli Parliament. “In Rafah, we evacuated a million inhabitants who were not involved and, despite all our efforts, yesterday [domingo] “A tragic incident occurred.”
And he continued: “We are investigating what happened and we will draw conclusions.” The attack has sparked a wave of international condemnation.
Women, children and the elderly among the dead
On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike caused a fire in a displaced persons camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the death toll amounts to 45, among whom there are a dozen women, eight children and three elderly people; and the number of injured was 383.
The Israeli Army justified its attack against this neighborhood in the northwest of the city of Rafah, which had not received evacuation orders, by the presence of two senior officials of the Islamist group Hamas in this area, the commander of its division for the West Bank, Yassin Rabia. ; and another senior commander of that same division, Khaled Nagar.
The death toll in Gaza reached 36,050, 66 of them in the last 24 hours, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, due to the Israeli attacks. They stated that 45 of the deaths occurred in a refugee camp in Rafah in a bombing.
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