The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, which Israeli and Palestinian media reports said had resulted in Israeli casualties.

Israel’s military said 10 projectiles were launched from Rafah in southern Gaza towards the area of the crossing, which it said was now closed to aid trucks going into the coastal enclave. Other crossings remain open.

Hamas’ armed wing said it fired rockets at an Israeli army base by the crossing, but did not confirm where it fired them from. Hamas media quoted a source close to the group as saying the commercial crossing was not the target.

Sunday’s attack on the crossing came as hopes dimmed for ceasefire talks under way in Cairo.

The war began after Hamas stunned Israel with a cross-border raid on Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were killed and 252 hostages taken, according to Israeli tallies.

More than 34,600 Palestinians have been killed, 29 of them in the past 24 hours, and more than 77,000 have been wounded in Israel’s assault, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

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    8 months ago

    Defibitely not. I think some of them were used as soldiers or suicide bombers.

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      8 months ago

      So Israel is not responsible for a single child death despite bombing the fuck out of a whole lot of places in Gaza, including refugee camps?

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        8 months ago

        Yes, clearly that’s exactly what I meant, Israel is and always has been entirely blameless in all of this

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          8 months ago

          I’m not sure what you mean then since you seem to suggest that every child who has died was the fault of Hamas.