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Palestinian children, women killed in Israeli massacre in Gaza's Rafah

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  • Source: Al Mayadeen
  • 3 May 2024 12:30
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Al Mayadeen's correspondent reports that most of the shrapnels of bombs used by the Israeli occupation have markings showing they were made in the US.

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  • Palestinian children, women killed in Israeli massacre in Gaza's Rafah
    Forcibly displaced Palestinians in a tent city built in Rafah near the border with Egypt after they escaped Israeli bombings on regions across the Strip on February 16, 2024. (AFP)

A number of Palestinians, most of whom are children and women, were killed early Friday in an Israeli bombing on Rafah in southern Gaza, the small region bordering Egypt which now shelters over 1.3 million people, most of whom were forcibly displaced by the occupation.

A house in the Zuhur neighborhood in the city was shelled by occupation forces, killing six Palestinians and wounding others.

Read more: Gaza can no longer count dead bodies: WSJ

Additionally, several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house near tents sheltering forcibly displaced families in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of the city of Rafah, while nine were injured in a shelling that targeted the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In Gaza City, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli artillery shelled the al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Our correspondent pointed out that most Israeli bomb shrapnel have markings showing they were manufactured in the US.

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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that the occupation army will invade Rafah whether an exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance is reached or not, top world officials and human rights organizations voiced their deep concerns over an anticipated invasion of Rafah, which would tragically worsen the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

On Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip since October 7 has now reached 34,596, with 77,816 injured as the war marks its 209th day.

The Ministry stated that the Israeli occupation committed in the past 24 hours three massacres against families in the Strip, killing 28 people and injuring 51.

Moreover, it noted that thousands of victims of the aggression remain trapped under the rubble and on roads inaccessible to ambulance and civil defense crews, as the occupation continues to prevent rescue teams from reaching them.

UNICEF's global spokesperson James Elder has reported on the many horrors he witnessed in Rafah, warning that a potential invasion would be "catastrophic".

During three visits to the European Hospital's ICU in the city earlier this week, Elder recalled how he observed many youngsters lying on the same bed after a bomb tore their house. Despite the physicians' best attempts, they all died.

He stated how mere weeks earlier, the world was outraged at the killing of seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid workers and a week later, a UNICEF van was attacked, as it attempted to deliver much-needed aid.

Elder emphasizes that Rafah would completely implode if attacked. "There is simply nowhere left to go in Gaza," he says, citing the severe shortage of water for drinking and sanitation and the one shared toilet per 850 people. 

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