The Israeli missiles struck tents in an area to the west of Rafah city, which was supposed to be safe from attack.

Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40.

“The massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in the refugee tents northwest of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip has left 40 martyrs and 65 wounded,” Mohammad al-Mughayyir, a senior official at the civil defence agency, told AFP news agency.

The attack led to a massive fire, which Palestinian Civil Defence teams managed to extinguish after about 45 minutes.

“The air strikes burnt the tents, the tents are melting and the people’s bodies are also melting,” one of the residents who arrived at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah was reported as saying by the Reuters news agency.

Doctors without Borders, known by its acronym MSF, said “dozens of wounded” as well as more than 15 of the dead had been brought to a facility that it supports.

  • MyEdgyAltEnglish
    42·
    6 months ago

    Completely agreed. That said, this pre-October-7th article does list a person with the same name as one of the claimed targets of this attack giving statements on behalf of Hamas, so assuming they aren’t lying about having killed him, in this particular case the claims seem plausible. They attacked a Hamas member and included their preferred amount of collateral damage.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Kamel Abu Bakr is a name like Peter Miller. Both Kamel as a first and Abu Bakr as a last name are super common.

      • MyEdgyAltEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        The other one, Yassin / Yasin Rabia. Which for all I know could also be like John Smith.

        Senior Hamas member Yasin Rabia, responded to the attack, saying[…]

        That was the name I saw in reports about the Rafah killings.