Israeli Air Strike On Rafah Tent Camp Kills 21

Some 21 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in new Israeli strikes on a tent area near Rafah, health officials have said. Meanwhile, a top UN official says Rafah is “hell on earth” after people were “burnt to death” in an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 45 people.

Some 21 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in new Israeli strikes on a tent area to the west of Rafah, Palestinian health officials have said.

The strikes targeted tents of displaced families in the designated humanitarian area in Mawasi in western Rafah, medics and residents told Reuters.

At least 12 of those killed were women, medical officials said.

It comes after Israeli strikes on Rafah killed at least 16 Palestinians, as residents reported an escalation of fighting in the city in southern Gaza.

Those strikes took place in the same area where Israel targeted what it said was a Hamas compound on Sunday night – in an attack that ignited a fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians and killed at least 45 people, according to local health officials.