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Rafah latest: Israeli tanks in the heart of southern Gaza city amid intense shelling - BBC News Rafah latest: Israeli tanks in the heart of southern Gaza city amid intense shelling - BBC News
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BBC Verify Hugo Bachega
Rozina Sini and Richard Irvine-Brown Middle East correspondent
Video shared across Arabic-language social media shows smoke rising over the Taiba mosque in western Rafah this morning. The Israeli
The mosque is in Tal as Sultan and is more than 4km from al-Awda roundabout - and around 1.5km from the Kuwaiti camp where 46 people were killed in an airstrike on Sunday night. It is also 1.25km from the Indonesian Field Hospital, struck overnight. military says it is investigating the possibility that weapons stored in a
As with the video of tank tread marks on the road in western Rafah, we can be confident the video is from this morning given the cloudy weather. nearby compound caught fire after an Israeli air strike in Rafah on Sunday,
Using frames from the video to search for other copies, the earliest we have yet seen was posted around 6am BST (8am in Gaza) by the social media account 'Eye On Palestine'. Although there are claims the smoke is from an artillery strike, we are yet to see evidence of what has caused it. triggering a blaze in a tent camp for displaced Palestinians that killed dozens
of people.
Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), said
the munition used in the attack could not have ignited a fire of this size
alone.
Hagari said the attack hit a structure where two senior Hamas commanders
were meeting, and said the target was outside the area that had been designated
as a humanitarian zone by the Israeli military.
The attack led to widespread
international condemnation, with world leaders and humanitarian groups calling
for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
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