UNSC emergency meeting on Tuesday after Israeli Rafah massacre: AP
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The news agency reports that the council will convene based on a request made by Algeria.
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Palestinians looking between the rubble at the massacre site committed by the Israeli occupation against forcibly displaced families in Rafah tent city, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 27, 2024 (AP)
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting requested by Algeria on Tuesday, after the Israeli massacre against forcibly displaced families sheltered in a tent city in Rafah late Sunday, AP reported citing diplomats.
Over 40 people were martyred, most of them women and children, in the Israeli bombing.
Footage showed tents in flames as a result of the Israeli strikes, with terrified Palestinians searching between the rubble for martyrs, most of whom had been incinerated.
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In a post on X, the Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the strike, claiming it was a "precision" attack to assassinate Hamas members.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the occupation entity to immediately halt its military assault on the small city in southern Gaza.
The UNSC will convene just one day ahead of an Israeli Knesset preliminary vote on Wednesday, seeking to designate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) a "terrorist organization" and sever all official "direct and indirect" ties with it.
No safe place in Gaza
The camp, established in UNRWA barracks in the northwest of Rafah Governorate, was bombed with more than seven missiles and large bombs, each weighing more than 2000 pounds of explosives, the Gaza Media Office stated.
The Gaza Civil revealed that the targeted area shelters 100,000 displaced persons.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) expressed horror at "Israel's" massacre, stating that the "deadly event" underscores once again that nowhere is safe in Gaza.
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The international organization reported that dozens of wounded Palestinians were transported to a trauma stabilization point in Gaza.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to housing, has urged action against "Israel" in response to the massacre.
"Attacking women and children while they cower in their shelters in Rafah is a monstrous atrocity. We need concerted global action to stop Israel’s actions now," he said in a post on X.
