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full screen Palestinians search for people under a house attacked by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza. Photo: Fatima Shbair/AP/TT
The southern Gaza Strip was under intense bombardment during the night of Wednesday.
Israel also attacked southern Lebanon, where an airstrike reportedly killed seven ambulance drivers whom Israel accuses of having links to an Islamist group.
The bombing turns the sky over Rafah red, according to a clip from the night’s attacks published by The Guardian. In the daylight, the devastation is visible in a destroyed apartment building.
According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, four people were killed, but ten more are feared to be under the rubble. Neighbor Mohammed Dheir tells AP that there are “limbs everywhere on the ground”.
During the night, Israel also attacked eastern Lebanon, with an air strike that the Israeli military says was aimed at an ambulance center that Israel believes is linked to a terrorist-labeled Islamist group. Seven people were killed in the attack, which a Lebanese association for ambulance care condemned as a “flagrant crime against humanitarian work”. It is the deadliest attack in Lebanon since Israel’s war against terror-labeled Hamas broke out on October 7. Since then, there have been almost daily attacks between Israel and Hezbollah.
In response, the Hamas-allied Shiite militia Hezbollah fired about 30 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel on Wednesday morning. One person was killed, according to Israeli emergency services.
Violence has also occurred during an Israeli raid in the refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank – where two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Israel’s military also killed a Palestinian who, according to the military, threw explosives at them.