Palestinians killed for trying to infiltrate Israel from Rafah
Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians for allegedly attempting to Palestinians killed infiltrate into Israel from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the army said on Thursday. The so-called Israel Defence Forces claimed that the three spotted trying to sneak through a security fence, Anadolu has reported. Two killed by an Israeli drone and a third hit by tank fire. An investigation launched into the incident, added the IDF. There was no Palestinian comment on the Israeli allegation. smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since the 7 October cross-border incursion by Hamas, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.
Nearly 36,600 Palestinians have since killed by Israel in Gaza
The vast majority of them women and children, and over 83,000 others have been wounded. Nearly eight months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza are in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
Israel stands accused of genocide by South Africa at the International Court of Justice, which in latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians sought refuge from the war before it invaded by Israeli forces on 6 May. The occupation state not only denies the genocide charge, but has also ignored the court’s rulings.
Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, Gaza medics said.
Israel pressed on with its offensive on Rafah a day after saying its forces had taken control of a buffer zone along the nearby border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, giving it effective authority
It said the buffer zone’s capture had cut off Palestinians killed
A route used by the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas to smuggle arms into Gaza during more than seven months of war, which has laid waste to much of the territory and raised fears of famine.
Gaza medical sources said the 12 Palestinians, whom it said were civilians, had killed and an unspecified number of others wounded in an Israeli airstrike as they tried to recover the body of a civilian in the centre of Rafah.
Another Palestinian civilian killed in an airstrike on Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City in the north of the densely populated enclave, the medics said.
Israel reported clashes in southern, central and northern Gaza but did not immediately comment on the reported deaths in Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians took refuge earlier in the war.
Communication services cut off in Rafah, Palestinian telecommunications company Jawa said in a statement.
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