The Israeli Airstrike in Rafah, Syria, last July 6, 2005: A critical review by Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and Dr. James Smith

General Tomer-Yerushalmi said in a speech to the Israeli Bar Association that complex incidents also occur during a war of such scope. “Some of the incidents, like last night’s incident in Rafah, are very serious.” She added that the military “regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians during the war.”

The airstrike was under review, according to Maj. General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. 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. “And a fire like this could spread over a huge distance with catastrophic consequences in a very, very short space of time.”

Dr. Smith said that despite the estimates of over one million people fleeing Rafah in a matter of weeks after the Israelis announced their intentions, the area is still densely populated.

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.”

Dr. James Smith, an emergency doctor who is working just outside Rafah, said that the injured were taken to a trauma stabilization center in Tal al-Sultan and then referred to surrounding field hospitals for further treatment. Many hospitals in Rafah and neighboring cities were ordered to be evacuated and shut down by the Israeli military in the past months.

Doctors Without Borders said more than 15 people died and dozens were wounded in the Rafah strike and they brought them to a trauma stabilization center in Tal as Sultan.

The man who said that he was at the scene of the strike said that he saw charred corpses and people screaming for help. He said that the fire was huge and all over the camp. There was no electricity.

A construction worker in Rafah, named Bilal al-Sapti, said that the strike ripped up the tent he was in with his wife and two children, but they were uninjured.

The court order, which called on Israel to halt any actions in Rafah, was ambiguous and may cause physical destruction to the Palestinian group in Gaza. Israeli officials have argued that the ruling allowed it to continue fighting in Rafah because the military would not inflict such conditions.

The military said that the strike took place in northwest Rafah. Israeli ground troops have so far been operating in southeast Rafah, and in the narrow corridor along the Egyptian border.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Monday that it had taken a number of steps before the strike to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians, including conducting aerial surveillance and using precise munitions. “Based on these measures, it was assessed that there would be no expected harm to uninvolved civilians,” the military said.

Over 35,000 people have been killed in the war in Gaza. More than 220 people were taken hostage by the Hamas during the attack in Israel, and more than 1,200 people were killed. More than 100 hostages remain in Gaza.

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I heard a loud noise at 6:30 pm yesterday. He told NPR that he heard an explosion which sounded like an earthquake. “I couldn’t get out of the door so I jumped out of the window and saw injured children… 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. The hard liners in his government want a complete ceasefire, which is why he is under pressure.

According to reports, the negotiations are supposed to resume next week. David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad, and William J. Burns, the Administrator of the US CIA, were in Paris over the weekend.

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.

The Israeli official said that an initial investigation by the military showed that the strike, or shards of it, may have caused a fire. Eyewitnesses described intense fires in the aftermath of the strike.

Military drone footage of the attack, reviewed by The New York Times, showed the munition striking an area housing several large cabinlike structures and parked cars.

He did not give an indication that the Israeli military would be stopping their operation in Rafah. He did not directly address a question from a reporter about whether tanks had moved into Rafah’s center, saying that Hamas battalions remained in the city and that Israeli forces were operating in a “targeted” way.

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.” Those claims could not 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. We’re talking about munition with 17 kilos of explosive material. This is the smallest munition that our jets can use. There was a fire after the strike and it is being investigated. Our munition alone could not have ignited 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. We are operating in Rafah in a very targeted and precise way. We need to do everything we can to bring our hostages back home, because there are still hostages in Rafah.

Britain’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, on Tuesday cited the “deeply distressing” scenes from Rafah over the weekend — many of which featured charred bodies in the wreckage of the encampment — in calling for a “swift, comprehensive” investigation.

Israel’s response to the Al- Mawasi attack in Rafah is unresolved – but not without accountability

Those statements, however, did not stop people from demanding accountability and a halt to fighting, which came amid reports of more deaths in Al- Mawasi on Tuesday.

Israel’s military said its troops were pressing on with their ground assault in the Rafah area on Tuesday, even as international outrage over its operation there intensified in the wake of a deadly airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians.