The Palestinian Red Crescent said the airstrikes targeted tents for refugees near a UN facility in Tal al-Sultan., OutIt is located approximately 2 km (1.2 miles) northwest of the center of Lapa.
Graphic footage showed numerous structures burning and emergency workers and bystanders carrying several bodies, next to a banner that read “Kuwait Peace Camp '1'”.
“We were sitting safely at the door of our house. Suddenly we heard a missile,” eyewitness Fadi Dukhan told Reuters.
“We ran and found the street covered in smoke.” He added that he and others saw a girl and a young man killed in the explosion.
Abed Mohammed al-Attar said his brother and sister-in-law were killed and their children were orphaned.
“The (Israeli) army is a liar. There is no security in Gaza. There is no security for children, old people and women,” he said.
The IDF said in a statement Monday afternoon that its military spokesman, Ifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, which is responsible for ensuring military action is in accordance with Israeli law, had ordered an investigation into the incident.
Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft “carried out intelligence-based strikes in the Rafah region against key terrorist targets in the region,” it said on Sunday.
The IDF identified them as West Bank armed group chief of staff Yassin Rabia and senior West Bank official Khaled Nagar. civilian clothes.
“A number of measures were taken to reduce the risk of harm to uninvolved civilians during the attack, including aerial surveillance prior to the attack, deployment of precision munitions by the IAF and additional intelligence information,” the statement added.
“Based on these measures, it has been assessed that there is no expected harm to uninvolved civilians. The IDF regrets any harm caused to uninvolved civilians during the fighting.”
Israeli government spokesman Avi Haiman told the BBC: “According to initial reports, it appears that a fire broke out and sadly claimed the lives of other people.”
In a Monday morning speech, OutMajor-General Tomer-Yerushalmi described the events in Rafah as “very difficult.”
