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Israel continues Rafah strikes after dozens killed in Sunday bombing - BBC News Israel continues Rafah strikes after dozens killed in Sunday bombing - BBC News
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed troops were deployed along the Philadelphi Corridor - the thin buffer zone which separates Gaza and Egypt - overnight.
The director of planning for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Sam Rose, has been speaking to the BBC's Today programme from Rafah about the air strike that killed scores of Palestinians on Sunday. Earlier, we reported witness reports that Israeli forces were now in control of 9km of the strategically important route.
At least 45 people were killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, while hundreds more have been treated for severe burns, fractures and shrapnel wounds. In a statement on its Rafah operations, the IDF says it is "engaging with terrorists in close-quarters combat and locating terror tunnel shafts, weapons, and additional terrorist infrastructure in the area".
Rose says there were around eight strikes on a camp and that many were killed in fires as a result. He has heard reports of "horrific shrapnel injuries”. The Israel military also says it is "intensifying" operations in the central Gaza Strip and carrying out operations in northern Gaza.
Rose raises Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's initial description of the strike as a "mishap".
“We cannot dismiss this as a simple accident. Women and children were killed in the most gruesome, the most brutal, of circumstances," he says.
The situation in Gaza is reaching “new depths of horror and bloodshed and brutality every single day", he says.
“If this isn’t a wake up call" for the international community, "it’s hard to see what will be", he adds.
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