Israeli commandos on June 8 stormed into a camp to rescue four hostages held by Hamas militants.
A Palestinian sits on top of belongings as he flees Rafah due to an Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza Strip on June 7.
In an update on June 9, Gaza's health ministry said 274 Palestinians were killed - up from 210 it reported the day earlier - and 698 were injured when Israeli special force commandos stormed into the densely populated Al-Nuseirat camp to The Israeli military said in a statement its forces were continuing operations east of Bureij and the city of Deir al-Balah in the centre of the coastal enclave, killing several Palestinian gunmen and destroying militant infrastructure.
As of June 5, all but around 100,000 displaced people who took refuge in eastern Rafah after fleeing Israeli offensives further north in Gaza had left, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. The Israeli military said troops of its 162nd division were raiding some districts of Rafah where they had located"numerous additional terror tunnel shafts, mortars, and weapons" belonging to Palestinian Islamist militants.Hamas precipitated the war with a lightning cross-border attack into Israel last Oct 7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing over 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. About half the hostages were freed during a brief November truce.
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