Israeli Air Strikes Back: The Israeli Regime Embedded in the Shadow of Israel and Hamas in the First Day of the Israeli War

Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Israeli Parliament that Israel tried to minimize civilian deaths by asking Gazans to evacuate, but “despite our supreme effort not to harm uninvolved civilians, a tragic accident occurred to our regret last night.” He accused Hamas of hiding among the general population, saying, “For us, every uninvolved civilian who is hurt is a tragedy. It is a strategy for Hamas. That’s the whole difference.”

Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the Israeli military’s top legal official, said on Monday that the airstrike was under review. She said the military police had opened around 70 criminal investigations into potential misconduct during the war.

“These are very, very tightly packed tents,” he said. A fire like this could cause great damage in a short period of time.

The Gazan Crisis in the Light of a U.N. Security Constraints on Israel and the Planned Action of the United Nations

Gazans fleeing their homes early in the conflict had swollen the population to more than one million. The Egyptian authorities said they were concerned about an exodus of refugees across the border and onto its soil. Since then, most people have fled Rafah to areas farther from the Egyptian border.

Speaking from a house a few miles away from the trauma center, a distance that he said had become too dangerous to cross, Dr. Smith said footage shared by his colleagues at the trauma center of injuries from the strike and the fire were “truly some of the worst that I have seen.”

Smith said that people were burned alive in their tents. I have been in Gaza for six-plus weeks and this is a completely different experience than I have seen before. Truly one of the most horrific massacres to have occurred in recent days here in Rafah and across the Gaza Strip.”

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that a large number of victims were taken to the Tal as Sultan clinic and field hospitals in the vicinity of the strikes, and that many people had been trapped at the site of the strikes.

Mr. al-Sapti said that at the scene of the strike he saw charred bodies and people screaming as firefighters tried to put out the flames. The fire was strong and was all over the camp, he said. There was darkness and no electricity.

Bilal al-Sapti, 30, a construction worker in Rafah, said that shrapnel from the strike tore up the tent where he was staying with his wife and two children, but that his family was uninjured.

The strike came days after the United Nations International Court of Justice ordered the Israeli military to end its operation in Rafah. The order was related to one of several provisional measures that South Africa added to a broader case it filed with the ICJ in December against Israel accusing it of genocide. It also ordered Israel to open its border with Egypt to let aid in and allow a U.N. fact finding mission to enter to investigate accusations of war crimes.

The military has said that the strike in Rafah on Sunday — which ignited a deadly fire in the camp and killed dozens of people — was targeting a Hamas compound.

On Monday, first responders in the city of Rafah reported that seven women and children had been killed in an airstrike. There were more air assaults in Gaza.

The war in Gaza has killed more than 30,000 people, according to health officials there. Over a thousand people were killed and hundreds were taken hostage in Israel during a Hamas attack on October 7. 120 hostages are still in Gaza.

The Israeli attack on the Rafah crossing: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes to the Israeli military and the international community for a “tragic accident”

“At around 6:30 p.m. yesterday, I heard a huge noise. He told NPR he heard an explosion and it sounded like an earthquake. I jumped out the window to see children who had been hurt, one without a head.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under increasing domestic pressure to negotiate a ceasefire deal to bring the remaining hostages home. Israel has been rocked by weekly protests by families of hostages and others calling for the resignation of Netanyahu. He is also under pressure by hard liners in his government that do not want a complete ceasefire.

Israeli media is reporting that officials say that negotiations are supposed to resume next week. There were some high level discussions in Paris this weekend between the Israeli Mossad’s David Barnea, the U.S. CIA’s William J. Burns and the Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahma al-Thani.

The Egyptian army’s spokesman, Col. Gharib Abdel Hafez, wrote on social media that a member of Egypt’s security forces was killed in the incident near the crossing.

This week witnessed the first exchange of fire between Egyptian and Israeli soldiers since the start of the war. The details of how the exchange fire began are unclear, but at least one Egyptian soldier died.

“Several hours ago, a shooting incident took place on the Egyptian border. The incident is being reviewed. There is a dialogue with the Egyptian side,” Israel’s military said in a statement.

The Israeli seizure of the Rafah crossing, in what Israel called a limited operation into Rafah, halted the flow of aid into the enclave through that portal. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the operation was crucial to destroy Hamas’ military infrastructure and defeat the remaining battalions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Monday it was a “tragic accident” that civilians had been killed, and on Tuesday the Israeli military’s chief spokesman claimed that the bombs Israel had used in the attack were too small to have caused a fire of that size.

An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said on Monday that an initial investigation by the military had concluded that the strike, or shrapnel from it, may have unexpectedly ignited a flammable substance at the site. Eyewitnesses described intense fires in the aftermath of the strike.

The New York Times reviewed footage from military drones and it showed a bomb hitting an area with cabins and parked cars.

The Israeli Operation against Hamas in Rafah: Airstrike and Bombs Detected at the Kuwaiti Hospital

The president warned that Israel should not launch a large offensive into Rafah before Hamas launched rockets at the Kerem Shalom crossing point.

An official in the Biden administration told NPR they were not concerned by the type of military operation Biden has said would not be acceptable.

On Monday, Gaza’s health ministry said two employees of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah — one of the last hospitals functioning there — were killed at the gate of the facility by an Israeli airstrike. The hospital is closing its doors.

A man who witnessed the aftermath told NPR the scene was a charnel house where one child was eviscerated and the other was decapitated.

Israeli forces are pushing deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite an order last week from the top U.N. court to halt its operation against Hamas there.

One witness told NPR that Israeli tanks were spotted in western Rafah, which was opposite of the city where the offensive began. The Reuters news agency also reported that tanks had been seen in the center of the city, where some 1.4 million people had been sheltering before the offensive began, having fled there to escape fighting in the rest of the tiny coastal territory.

Cairo warned that the conflict between Gaza and Egypt could undermine the peace treaty it had with Israel because of the impact on its own territory.

The fighting in Gaza has caused the main aid routes to be cut off, which has caused warehouses to run out of food.

Israel had not ordered the Palestinians to leave the area-it-struck-on-sunday: “Our munition alone could not have ignited a large fire”

Israeli jets had fired the “smallest munitions” that they could use, he said, insisting that “our munitions alone could not have ignited a fire of this size.” The claims wouldn’t be independently verified.

The Israeli military’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, told a news conference that an investigation was examining “all possibilities” to determine what had caused the fire

The strike was conducted using two munitions with small warheads suited for this targeted strike. They are talking about 17 kilos of explosives. This is the smallest munition that our jets can use. Following this strike, a large fire ignited for reasons that are still being investigated. It is not possible for our munition alone to ignite a fire of this size. I want to repeat it: Our munition alone could not have ignited a fire of this size. Our investigation seeks to determine what may have caused such a large fire to ignite. In Rafah we are operating in a way that is very specific. We need to make sure that we bring our hostages back to their homes, because there are still hostages in Rafah.

In calling for a thorough investigation, Britain’s foreign Secretary, David Cameron, cited the “deeply distressing” scenes from Rafah over the weekend, where charred bodies were found in the ruins of the camp.

Source: Israeli Troops Keep Up Assault on Rafah After Condemnation of Deadly Strike

On the role of the Al-Mawasi gunmen in the fighting in the sacrificial splint-insurrection

Those statements did little to stop a chorus of voices demanding accountability and a halt to the fighting that took place amid reports of another deadly strike in nearby Al-Mawasi on Tuesday.