Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Troops met with Hamas fire in Rafah operation

 

Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in Israeli bombardment at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah [Ramez Habboub/AP]

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• Hamas fighters fire rockets and mortars at Israeli troops and tanks as they enter Gaza’s southern Rafah city with three soldiers wounded in a blast in a booby-trapped tunnel.
• An estimated 80,000 Palestinians attempt to flee Rafah as Israel shells the eastern area of the besieged city sheltering some 1.5 million people.
• Israel’s continued closure of the Rafah border crossing is “choking off the entry of life-saving aid into Gaza”, says the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
• At least 34,904 people have been killed and 78,514 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.