The chief prosecutor of the Israeli Army, Yifat Tomer Yerushalmisaid this Monday that the operation against an evacuee camp in Rafahsouth of Loopwas “very serious”as he declared in an intervention before Israeli lawyers.
“Naturally, in a war of such scope and intensity, complex incidents also occur.“, said. ““Some of the incidents, like last night in Rafah, are very serious.”
Yerushalmi announced that the armed forces are carrying out a investigation into the attackthat occurred against a “safe zone” that the Army had not yet ordered evacuation in the Tal al Sultan neighborhoodnorthwest of Rafah.
“The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) regrets any harm to non-combatants during the war”, he stated at the conference, organized by the Israel Bar Association.
Furthermore, the lawyer established regarding the attack that “during war, incidents occur in which suspicions are raised about the violation of the laws of war and military orders,” although “these exceptions are not the norm”.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 Palestinians and injured dozens, according to Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency. Many bodies were “charred” after the attacks caused a fire, the same source added.
Humanitarian organizations such as Doctors without borders (MSF) and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) described what happened as “a bloody” and “terrifying night”and insisted that ““There is no safe place in Gaza.”calling for a ceasefire.
Images spread by Palestine Red Crescent They showed chaotic nighttime scenes of paramedics in ambulances rushing to the scene of the fiery attack and evacuating the wounded, including children.
“We had just finished the afternoon prayer,” he told the AFP one survivor, a Palestinian woman who did not want to give her name. “Our children were sleeping… suddenly we heard a loud noise and there was fire around us. “The children were screaming… the sound was terrifying.”
He International Committee of the Red Cross It said one of its field hospitals was receiving an “influx of wounded seeking care for injuries and burns” and that “our teams are doing everything they can to save lives.”
Images of AFP after dawn they showed the charred remains of tents and makeshift vehicles as Palestinian families watched the blackened destruction.
For his part, the Israeli army confirmed early Monday morning the attack by its aircraft on Tal al Sultan“based on precise intelligence” and directed against two senior officials of the Hamas terrorist group, the commander of his division for the West Bank, Yassin Rabia; and another high command of that same division, Khaled Nagar.
“The Hamas wing in Judea and Samaria (occupied West Bank) is responsible for the planning, financing and execution of terrorist attacks in that territory and within Israel,” a military statement indicated.
The Israeli attack caused strong protests from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatarwhich warned that it could “hinder” the incipient measures to reactivate the stalled talks on the truce and the release of hostages in the war between Israel and Hamas, which has continued since October 7.
The bombing occurred just a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to “immediately” stop its offensive in Rafahwhich began on May 6 and has forced the displacement of almost a million people.
Most of the evacuees fled to the beaches of Al Mawasiwhere they are overcrowded and without sanitation services or drinking water.
Some 36,000 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since October 7 and more than 80,000 were injured, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the enclave, controlled by Hamas.
The institution warns daily that, in addition, some 10,000 bodies remain under the rubble without ambulances or rescue teams being able to access them.
