Israel continues to bombard the overcrowded Gaza city of Rafah, where it has launched a ground incursion, as talks resume in Cairo aimed at agreeing the terms of a truce in the seven-month conflict, AFP reports.
After a night of heavy Israeli strikes and shelling across Gaza, AFPTV footage showed Palestinians scrambling in the dark to pull survivors, bloodied and caked in dust, out from under the rubble of a Rafah building.
“We are living in Rafah in extreme fear and endless anxiety as the occupation army keeps firing artillery shells indiscriminately,” said Muhanad Ahmad Qishta, 29.
“Rafah is witnessing a very large displacement, as places the Israeli army claims to be safe are also being bombed,” he told AFP.
Al-Ahli Hospital said a strike on an apartment in devastated Gaza City killed seven members of the same family and wounded several other people.