The massacre in the Rafah tent compound was one of several Israeli attacks on displacement centers across Gaza on Sunday
At least 40 Palestinians were killed on 26 May in Israeli airstrikes on the camps in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
Israel’s response to the ICJ’s ruling? Absolute carnage and beheaded children caused by several 2,000 lb bombs dropped on civilians and UN compounds in Rafah. Every accusation is a confession.
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل pic.twitter.com/K3ZttaKWqA
— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) May 27, 2024
URGENT: One day after the ICJ ordered Israel to cease its aggression on Rafah, Israel bombs tents sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians in the city, setting the make-shift camp on fire. A follow-up video reveals an unspeakable massacre in which scores of innocent… pic.twitter.com/fPiq3OWTyV
— Laith Arafeh 🇵🇸 (@ArafehLaith) May 26, 2024
The Israeli attack on Sunday evening, which was carried out with over six missiles, left several women and children dead.
There are no painkillers for burns, no medications to relieve pain, and there is no hospital in Rafah to treat the victims of this massacre.
The smell of burning flesh fills the place. The people will probably search for the body parts scattered among the tents in the morning, pic.twitter.com/dioos7eYGA
— Emelia 🇸🇪 (@Bernadotte22) May 27, 2024
“At least 40 were killed and others injured after occupation forces targeted, with at least eight missiles, tents of people sheltering in a displacement camp that was recently established near the UNRWA warehouses northwest of Rafah,” WAFA news agency reported.
From the site of the massacre of displaced persons’ tents west of Rafah, which was targeted by Israeli occupation aircraft last night, killing 35 martyrs, most of them children and women.
(Parts, charred bodies) pic.twitter.com/BmQ6xswm3o
— خالد الجلاصي (@Khaledjelassi10) May 27, 2024
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the people inside the tents – mostly women and children – were burned alive as a result of the attack. The area targeted had been designated as a safe zone by Israel and was sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians.
BREAKING: The moment Israel drops bombs on tents full of refugees, in the dark of the night, in a ‘humanitarian area’ in Rafah.
More than 35 Palestinians have been killed, mostly children burned or decapitated by the bombs.
This is a massacre.pic.twitter.com/6iWZQQLJTM
— sarah (@sahouraxo) May 26, 2024
commits a massacre in #Rafah this evening, dropping several 2,000 pound bombs on civilian tents and #UN compounds, murdering dozens of civilians seeking shelter. This was 🇮🇱‘s response to the @CIJ_ICJ.
Imagine what 🇮🇱 did for 76 Years while we slept.pic.twitter.com/eXUZdSYEc6
— Freedom🪽 (@Protect_100) May 27, 2024
It was one of several displacement centers targeted by Israeli forces that day, including in the northern city of Jabalia and Nuseirat in central Gaza, with the attacks resulting in the deaths and injuries of over 190 Palestinians on Sunday, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Horrible scenes of a new massacre in Rafah: The Israeli army committed a horrific massacre in North West Rafah which is supposed to be a safe area bombarding and burning tents of displaced Palestinians killing more than 30 civilians many of whom were burned to death and injuring… pic.twitter.com/SwZYrpXQFF
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) May 26, 2024
“The Israeli occupation army bombed more than 10 displacement centers within 24 hours, the last of which was committing a horrific massacre in the UNRWA Barkasat center northwest of the Rafah governorate, which claimed the lives of more than 40 martyrs,” it said.
The media office called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and all international courts to pursue “the war criminals of the Israeli occupation, the war criminals of the Americans, the German war criminals, and all other war criminals involved [in the killing of Palestinians.]”
Israel claimed it hit a Hamas compound in northwestern Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan area and said the strike was carried out “within international law.” It added that it was probing reports that fires spread and caused injuries inside a displacement camp.
The latest massacre in Rafah came two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah as part of the ongoing genocide case filed by South Africa.
It also comes as the ICC faces the threat of US sanctions for its recent decision to seek arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
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