CAIRO/GAZA: Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip's historic refugee camps in the centre of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday (Jul 18), killing at least 21 pe
in the centre of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday , killing at least 21 people, and tanks pushed deeper into Rafah in the south, health officials and residents said.
"This double pressure is not delaying the deal, it is advancing it," he said, according to a statement from his office. Reuters journalists saw medical workers digging up bodies from graves inside the facility, wrapping them in white shrouds before placing them inside vehicles for transfer to a new burial site as some relatives watched, some in tears.
The fighting has pushed the 60-bed Red Cross field hospital in Rafah to the brink of capacity, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement on Thursday. More than nine months into the war, Palestinian fighters led by Hamas are still able to attack Israeli forces on the ground, occasionally firing rocket barrages into Israel.
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