The UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched footage of injured folks being handled at Rafah’s Worldwide Medical Corps (IMC) area hospital on Monday, following an Israeli airstrike on a makeshift camp of internally displaced folks yesterday.

OCHA stated that medical doctors on the IMC area hospital in Rafah had been among the many first responders, after the Israeli strike on Sunday set hearth to the camp.

A minimum of 45 folks had been killed, in accordance with the Gaza Well being Ministry and the Palestinian Purple Crescent rescue service. The ministry stated the useless included at the least 12 girls, eight youngsters and three older adults, with one other three our bodies burned past recognition.

IMC Medical Director Javed Ali stated that the hospital handled 75 sufferers, with 25 being in a vital situation.

“I noticed the useless physique of a father who was principally holding his youngster, maybe round three years of age,” Ali stated. “They had been burned and charred. We could not separate them. So, we needed to put each of them collectively in a physique bag. It was very, very laborious.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Monday {that a} “tragic mistake” was made within the strike, however didn’t elaborate on the error.

Rafah, the southernmost Gaza metropolis on the border with Egypt, had housed greater than one million folks — about half of Gaza’s inhabitants — displaced from different elements of the territory. Most have fled as soon as once more since Israel launched what it referred to as a restricted incursion there earlier this month. Tons of of 1000’s are packed into squalid tent camps in and across the metropolis.

Further sources • AP

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