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Israel continues Rafah strikes after dozens killed in bombing - BBC News Israel continues Rafah strikes after dozens killed in bombing - BBC News
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Peter Bowes Rushdi Abualouf
North America correspondent BBC News Gaza correspondent
The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting for today to discuss an Israeli air strike which killed dozens of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday. The western part of Rafah city is currently under heavy bombardment and artillery fire, the most intense since the military operation began in early May.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the strike as a "tragic mishap," but there's growing international condemnation of the incident Eyewitnesses said that Israeli tanks have now taken control of the strategic Zoroub Hill, the highest hill overlooking the Palestinian-Egyptian border.
The closed door emergency meeting of the Security Council was requested by Algeria - and comes after the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres added his voice to the international outcry over the Rafah attack. The Israeli army has expanded its military operations in the west and troops are controlling 9km of the Philadelphia Corridor, witnesses told the BBC.
He said the situation there was "a horror that had to stop" and that there was "no safe place in Gaza." Local officials said at least 16 people were killed overnight, with no confirmation from the health ministry yet.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry at least 45 people were killed by the strike on Sunday. Hundreds more were treated for severe burns, fractures and shrapnel wounds. The air strikes have forced hundreds of families to flee to a nearby hospital, with rescue teams struggling to access the explosion sites.
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