Palestinians recover 6 bodies from rubble in Rafah after Israeli strike

By Mohamed Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Civil defense teams retrieved the bodies of six Palestinians from the rubble on Sunday following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to a local medical source.

"The victims were transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis" in southern Gaza, the source told Anadolu.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

Nearly 38,600 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 88,900 injured, according to local health authorities.

Over nine months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi