Residents and Hamas media said tanks advanced further west into the Shakoush neighbourhood of Rafah, forcing thousands of displaced people there to leave their tent camps
An Israeli tank takes position in the background as displaced Palestinians evacuate the Shakoush area on the northwestern outskirts of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 28.Israeli forces pressed their incursion deeper into two northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, and Palestinian health officials said tank shelling in Rafah killed at least 11 people.
“Some families live in the area of the raid and are now besieged by the occupation forces,” he told Reuters. “I went to check out our rooftop, they struck us, I was bombed - I flew off the rooftop and fell,” said Belal, who was laid on a hospital stretcher after being wounded in the attack. When Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel last October they killed around 1,200 people and seized more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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