RAFAH, Gaza: Israel struck one of the largest residential towers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday (Mar 9), residents said, stepping up pressure on the last area of the enclave it has not yet invaded and where over a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
View of the site of an Israeli air strike on a building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip Mar 9, 2024. RAFAH, Gaza: Israel struck one of the largest residential towers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday , residents said, stepping up pressure on the last area of the enclave it has not yet invaded and where over a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
"People were startled, running down the stairs, some fell, it was chaos. People left their belongings and money," said Mohammad Al-Nabrees, adding that among those who tripped down the stairs during the panicked evacuation was a friend's pregnant wife. Five months into Israel's unrelenting air and ground assault on Gaza, health authorities said nearly 31,000 Palestinians had been killed, over 72,500 were wounded and thousands were trapped under rubble.
"This brutal war has ruptured any sense of a shared humanity," said Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Palestinian children look on while standing at the site of an Israeli air strike on a building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip Mar 9, 2024.
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