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Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45, prompts international outcry

Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45, prompts international outcry

AN Israeli airstrike triggered a fire that killed 45 people in a tent camp in the Gazan city of Rafah, officials said, prompting an outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of a World Court order to halt Israel's assault. Palestinian families rushed to hospitals to prepare their dead for burial after a strike late on Sunday night set tents and rickety metal shelters ablaze. Israel's military, which is trying to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, said it was investigating reports that a strike it carried out against commanders of the Islamist militant group in Rafah had caused the fire. Survivors said families…
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Baby in Gaza saved from womb of mother killed in Israeli strike

Baby in Gaza saved from womb of mother killed in Israeli strike

A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in the Gaza city of Rafah, where 19 people died overnight in intensified strikes, Palestinian health officials said. The dead, killed in hits on two houses, included 13 children from one family, they said. The baby, weighing 1.4 kg (3.09 lb)and delivered in an emergency C-section, was stable and improving gradually, said Mohammed Salama, a doctor caring for her. Her mother, Sabreen Al-Sakani, had been 30 weeks pregnant. The baby was placed in an incubator in a Rafah hospital alongside…
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Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers ‘systematically, car by car’

Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers ‘systematically, car by car’

CELEBRITY chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car." Speaking via video, Andres said the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity group he founded had clear communication with the Israeli military, which he said knew his aid workers' movements. "This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," Andres said. "This was over 1.5, 1.8 kilometres, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the…
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Backs to the fence, Gazans fear Israeli attack on last refuge

Backs to the fence, Gazans fear Israeli attack on last refuge

ISRAELI forces shelled the outskirts of the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, where the displaced population, penned against the border fence in their hundreds of thousands, feared a new assault with nowhere left to flee. More than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are now homeless and crammed into Rafah. Tens of thousands more have arrived in recent days, carrying belongings in their arms and pulling children on carts, since Israeli forces last week launched one of the biggest assaults of the war to capture adjacent Khan Younis, the main southern city. If the Israeli…
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