Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary says there were eight very explosive air strikes on a makeshift tent camp with thousands of internally displaced Palestinians.
People decided to set up their tents there because they thought it would be safe, as its beside an UNRWA logistics space in Tal as-Sultan. It’s a very crowded place and the reason why fire caught the whole place is because it’s full of tents made of plastic and cloth.
Civil Defence has been trying for hours to put out the fires.
Thousands of children, women and families chose this area because … Israel claimed that it was a safe area.
In the last evacuation order the Israeli army posted, three blocks of that area were designated as safe so people evacuated from the eastern part of Rafah to the western part, fleeing air strikes.
The only hospital in Rafah has only eight beds and does not have an ICU unit, [so] the hospitals are not capable of treating all of these severe injuries.
Rafah has been targeted already this morning. And there are already injuries being treated in the hospitals.
