‘People Burned Alive’ in Attack on Rafah

Israeli forces have bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in a designed safe zone in Rafah, killing at least 35 Palestinians, according to officials. Many of the victims were women and children.

The attack on the Tal as-Sultan area came as Israeli forces also bombed shelters housing displaced Palestinians in areas including Jabalia, Nuseirat and Gaza City in the past 24 hours, killing at least 160 others, according to the Palestinian officials.

Many ‘charred and burned’ bodies pulled from site of Rafah attack

We have a statement from Dr Mohammed al-Mughayyir, who heads Gaza’s Civil Defense teams.

He said:

“We received a distress call after the area behind Al Baraksat was targeted, even though the Israeli occupation had marked that particular block as a safe zone and forced citizens to move there. It took us approximately 45 minutes to suppress the fire in the area, and we pulled out a number of dead bodies and injured people.

“Most of the bodies were charred and burned, while the injured people lost limbs and suffered other injuries due to the use of potentially internationally prohibited weapons that caused the massive fire which erupted. We pulled out approximately 50 people and injured people from the area and transported them to field hospitals after official hospitals were forced to evacuate by the occupation in an attempt to destroy the health system in the Rafah area.”