Several killed, injured in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah

By Mohamed Majid

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Several Palestinians were killed and wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted civilians on Salah al-Din Street in eastern Rafah, a medical source told Anadolu.

Witnesses confirmed to Anadolu that Israeli warplanes struck the civilians.

A medical source told Anadolu that 11 fatalities and 25 injuries arrived at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

On May 6, the Israeli army launched a military operation in Rafah, ignoring international warnings about the effect on displaced residents. The following day, Israeli forces took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

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 37,400 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and more than 85,400 others injured, according to local health authorities.

More than eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay 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 Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio