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Rafah massacre: At least 14 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on residential buildings

Tuesday, 19 March 2024 11:04 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 19 March 2024 11:09 AM ]

Displaced Palestinians inspect the damage to their tents following overnight Israeli bombardment at the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

The Israeli military has carried out new round of deadly attacks across the war-torn Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, where over a dozen Palestinians lost their lives.

Citing local sources, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday that at least 14 civilians, including women and children, were killed and many others injured in overnight Israeli strikes on residential buildings in the Musabeh, Khirbat al-Adas, and al-Janena neighborhoods of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Bereaved families in Rafah bidding farewell to their loved ones mass murdered by Israeli airstrikes late last night in Rafah, southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/yYBCe7TvIA
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 19, 2024

The report also said that the Israeli bombing of a house, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, left casualties.

The victims of the aerial assault were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, it added.

The report added that Israeli artillery attacks targeted east of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Israel waged its genocidal US-backed war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Hamas resistance movement carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 31,819 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 73,934 others.

In a war crime, the occupying regime is intentionally starving the people in Gaza by destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies.

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