Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike where displaced people were staying in Rafah.Credit:AP
The Israeli military said that it had aimed a strike at a Hamas compound and killed two Hamas leaders. A legal official with the military said the strike was under review.
Bilal al-Sapti,30,a construction worker in Rafah,said he saw charred bodies in the wreckage of the camp in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah,and people screaming as firefighters tried to put out the flames.
“The fire was very strong and was all over the camp,” he said. “There was darkness and no electricity.”
Sapti said shrapnel from the strike tore up the tent where he was staying with his wife and two children,but that his family was uninjured.
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed by the Israeli airstrike,at a morgue in Rafah.Credit:AP
“What kind of a tent will protect us from missiles and shrapnel?” he said.
UNRWA,the main United Nations agency that aids Palestinians,described on the social media platform X what it called a horrifying attack and said the images emerging from the site were “yet another testament” that Gaza is “hell on earth”.