75% of the more than 36,000 people who have died to date are women and children. The US maintains that Israel’s operation in Rafah is “limited” in scope.
The Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip in the last day have left at least 75 dead, 21 of them by new attacks in displaced persons camps in the west of the southern city of Rafah, and nearly 300 people injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, reported this Wednesday.
Thus, since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the number of deaths has reached 36,171, the 75% of them women and children; and the number of injured is 81,420, figures that Gazan authorities insist are outdated, since they estimate that there are at least 10,000 people under the rubble.
Neither the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last Friday, nor the requests from the international community have had any effect on the Israeli offensive in Rafah, where the tanks entered the center of the city yesterday and their attacks persist, in the already burned camp in the west of Tal al Sultan or Al Mawasi, according to the Gaza ministry.
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) has been forced to evacuate one of its field hospitals located in Rafah and move it to the Khan Yunis area, due to the “continuous air and artillery bombardments” that they have been suffering in its surroundings. .
This hospital center represented a health reinforcement for this southern area, where all the hospitals managed by the Gaza Ministry of Health are inoperative, with the exception of the Emirati Maternity Hospital in the Tal al Sultan neighborhood, in the northwest of Ráfah.
The Israeli Army, for its part, has reported the death of three soldiers, between 20 and 21 years old, due to “operations in Rafah”, which brings to 291 the number of casualties among the ranks of the troops since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
“Limited scope”
The Pentagon, for its part, maintains its analysis that the operation of the Israel Defense Forces in Rafah has a limited scope and although it describes the attack on the displaced persons camps as “horrible”, it has asked to wait for the results of the investigation. Israeli.
“We still think it is a limited operation,” deputy Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said at a press conference.
Source: Eitb
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