Gaza: Israeli air strikes on Monday killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced.
The spokesman for the health ministry in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qidra, said 35 people were killed and dozens others, most of them women and children, were wounded in the attack.
The Israeli military claimed its air force struck a Hamas resistance group’s compound in Rafah and that the strike was carried out with “precise ammunition and on the basis of precise intelligence.”
Without specifying the casualties, the Israeli military further claimed that the air strike targeted and eliminated two officials of the resistance group Hamas.
Earlier, Hamas said it launched missiles at Tel Aviv, prompting sirens to sound in the Israeli city for the first time in four months.
The Israeli military said eight projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Rafah, the southern tip of the Gaza Strip where Israel kept up operations despite a ruling by the top UN court ordering it to stop attacking the city.
The Israeli military said a number of the projectiles were intercepted. Israeli emergency services said they had received no reports of casualties.
In a statement on its Telegram channel, the Hamas al-Qassam Brigades said the rockets were launched in response to “Zionist massacres against civilians”.
Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV said the rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip.
Rafah is located about 100 km (60 miles) south of Tel Aviv.
