{"id":39596,"date":"2024-05-27T03:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39596"},"modified":"2024-05-27T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T03:50:09","slug":"israeli-strike-hits-rafah-area-after-hamas-barrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39596","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BBC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said dozens of people were killed or injured in a blast at a refugee camp in the Rafah area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had carried out an air strike targeting a Hamas compound in the area. It says it is reviewing the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the day Hamas fired eight rockets from Rafah towards Tel Aviv, the first long-range attacks on the city since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos from the southern Gaza Strip show a large explosion and intense fires burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas said an Israeli air strike had hit a camp for displaced Palestinians north-west of Rafah, away from recent military operations in a designated humanitarian safe zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It says women and children are among the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IDF said it had targeted Hamas militants in the area and said it was aware of reports the strike had ignited a fire which harmed civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was reviewing the incident but said it had used precision weapons against legitimate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier on Sunday air raid sirens sounded around Tel Aviv<\/a> as central Israel came under attack by Hamas rockets, fired from close to Rafah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight rockets were either intercepted by air defence systems or fell in fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s military offensive has continued in Rafah, despite the International Court of Justice ruling on Friday that it must halt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israelis take cover during rocket fire near Herzliya on Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The rocket barrage highlights the threat Hamas still poses to people across Israel, although there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also illustrates the challenges the Israeli army faces as it moves further into southern Gaza to oust Hamas from what it calls its \u201clast major stronghold\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rocket attack came ahead of further ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, which are expected to resume next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The military wing of Hamas said it had acted in response to “the massacre of civilians”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel began a long-anticipated offensive in Rafah about three weeks ago<\/a>, vowing to destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It says it believes Israeli hostages are also being held in the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN says more than 800,000 Palestinians have fled from Rafah since the offensive began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 1.5 million had been sheltering there from the fighting<\/a> elsewhere in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza began after Hamas-led gunmen attacked Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking 252 others back to Gaza as hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war since then, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said dozens of people were killed or injured in a blast at a refugee camp in the Rafah area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had carried out an air strike targeting a Hamas compound in the area. It says it is reviewing the incident. Earlier in the day Hamas fired eight rockets from Rafah towards Tel Aviv, the first long-range attacks on the city since January. Videos from the southern Gaza Strip show a large explosion and intense fires burning. Hamas said an Israeli air strike had hit a camp… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39598,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39596\/revisions\/39598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}