Israel’s war on Gaza live: Tent cities attacked as tanks roll into Rafah

 

Palestinian women and children flee Rafah with their belongings following renewed Israeli strikes in the city in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

• Israeli forces shelled a tent camp in a designated “safe zone” west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people, including 13 women and girls, in the latest mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
• The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting over Israel’s ground invasion of Rafah as Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognised the state of Palestine.
• The UN says it has received about 170 trucks of humanitarian aid over the past three weeks – “a drop in the ocean” from the 500 trucks needed each day.
• Israel’s incursion launched in early May has forced 1 million people to flee Rafah, most of whom had already been displaced several times by Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.
• At least 36,096 Palestinians have been killed and 81,136 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attack is at least 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

Women, girls suffer most in Israel’s war on Gaza: UN women’s agency chief

Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children “horrifically killed” by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.

“This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.