Tents massacre in Rafah
The raids targeted a camp for displaced people near the warehouses of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) near the Tal Al-Sultan area, which led to the spread of fires over large areas.
The government media office in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation committed a massacre by launching raids on areas to which it had previously forced the displaced in Rafah on the grounds that they were safe areas.
The massacre comes just two days after the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations, issued orders to Israel, the occupying power, to immediately stop its military operations in the Rafah Governorate, and to maintain the opening of the Rafah crossing, to enable the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of last October, which resulted in the martyrdom of 35,984 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 80,643 others, in an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
The massacre took place in an area that the army had declared a “safe zone,” and did not warn its residents or request that it be evacuated of the displaced. It came two days after the International Court of Justice decided to stop the Israeli military attack in Rafah immediately.
UN official describes the attack:
- The Israeli occupation committed 7 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, resulting in 66 documented fatalities and 383 injuries.
- The documented Palestinian death toll has risen to 36,050 martyrs and 81,026 injuries since the seventh of last October.
- A special update of the death toll of the Rafah massacre: 45 people killed, including 23 children and elderly, and 249 injured.
- The figures above only refer to the cases transported to hospitals and registered in the records of the Ministry of Health.
- A number of victims are still unaccounted for or missing under the rubble, as ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that reports of attacks on
families seeking safe haven in Rafah on the southern end of the Gaza Strip were
“horrific,” in reference to the “Tents Massacre” in which dozens of displaced
Palestinians were killed yesterday, both dead and wounded.
“The information coming from Rafah
about further attacks on families seeking shelter is horrific,” UNRWA wrote on
the X platform.
The organization added, "There
are reports of a large number of casualties, including children and women,
among the dead. Gaza is hell on earth. The photos taken last night are further
testimony to that."
The agency's commissioner, Philippe
Lazzarini, also said that UNRWA is unable to confirm the location of some of
its employees in the targeted area and is "deeply concerned" for
their safety and the safety of all displaced people.
He confirmed that 192 agency employees
were killed in Gaza, which is "unprecedented."
Western and Israeli media produced a narrative that justifies the Tents Massage and celebrating the burning of people alive:
Some images from the scence:
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