Eight Children Killed in Israeli Attacks on Rafah

Gaza’s civil defense office said its crews in Rafah are dealing with “several attacks” on inhabited and uninhabited homes in the southern city.

It said Israeli forces have hit 11 homes in the southern area between Sunday evening and the early hours of Monday.

The attacks have resulted in dozens of people killed, wounded, and missing under the rubble, Al Jazeera reported.

The Wafa news agency later reported that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Rafah has risen to 22.

The victims include eight children, it said.

Two of them were killed in the attack on the Abu Lebda home, and four were killed in a raid on the Qishta family.

Israel waged a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel has imposed a complete siege on the densely populated territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli onslaught in October of last year has grown to almost 34,700, the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry said.