The Gaza health ministry reports another 40 people were killed in Israeli strikes near Gaza City, and “dozens” more in Jabalia and Khan Younis.

Israel forces continue their offensive in and around Gaza’s main cities, AFP reports. The military action has pushed Gazans south, turning Rafah near the Egyptian border into a vast camp for many of the 1.9 million displaced by the conflict — 80 per cent of Gaza’s population.

“Two months on the road, moving from one place to another. These are the hardest two months we have experienced in our lives,” said Abdallah Abu Daqqa, displaced from Khan Yunis to Rafah. Air strikes have followed them.

Eight more hit Rafah overnight. AFP journalists saw around 20 corpses in white body bags, including a child, at its Nasser hospital, while men gathered nearby to pray.

A man walks among the rubble of a building destroyed destroyed Israeli bombardment overnight in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 7, 2023. — AFP
A man walks among the rubble of a building destroyed destroyed Israeli bombardment overnight in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 7, 2023. — AFP

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