War between Israel and Hamas: what to remember from Wednesday May 8
The Israeli army carried out deadly airstrikes and said it was continuing its ground operations “targeted” in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, at a time when delicate negotiations are being held in Cairo with a view to a truce between Israel and Hamas.
According to the army, Israeli soldiers continued their “targeted operations on the Gaza side of the crossing point, in eastern Rafah, based on reports of terrorists operating in the area”. Aviation, according to the army, struck “more than 100 targets” of armed groups across the territory. “We are very afraid. The occupying army continues to indiscriminately fire shells on neighborhoods in eastern Rafah, in addition to intensifying airstrikes”a 29-year-old resident of Rafah, Mouhanad Ahmad Qishta, told AFP.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to launch a major ground offensive against the city of Rafah, which according to the UN shelters 1.4 million Palestinians, the majority displaced by the war, to eliminate the last battalions of the movement Islamist. On Tuesday, after calling the day before for residents of several neighborhoods in the east of the city to evacuate, the army deployed tanks in Rafah and took control of the border crossing with Egypt, cutting off the main entry gate. for humanitarian aid convoys to the besieged Palestinian territory.
Another crossing point near Rafah, Kerem Shalom, between Israel and the Gaza Strip, was targeted by rocket fire on Wednesday shortly after its reopening, which lightly injured a soldier, the army announced. This crossing was closed on Sunday after previous shootings claimed by Hamas, which killed four soldiers.
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