Rafah.. In the camp for the displaced in the Palestinian city of Rafah, which was subjected to a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces, last night, citizens were looking in shock at the houses Tins and charred tentsdestruction and traces of blood.
The occupation aircraft had bombed displaced persons in a newly established displacement camp near the warehouses of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of Rafah, resulting in the death of 45 citizens, including 23 women, children and the elderly, and the injury of 249 others.
The camp is located within areas that the occupation forces had previously identified as safe, and called on the displaced to go there. No statements or warnings were issued to the displaced and residents of the area to evacuate.
Horrific testimonies about the occupation massacre in Rafah
According to the Palestinian Wafa News Agency, the young man, Muhammad Hamad (24 years old), said: “People were not only injured or killed, but they were charred.”
He added, “My cousin’s daughter, a girl no more than 13 years old, was among the martyrs. She has no features left at all because the shrapnel tore off her head.”
The Israeli raids caused A fire breaks out in the campWhich turned tents and shelters into ashes.
Footage published by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society showed night scenes of paramedics in ambulances rushing to the site of the massacre and evacuating the wounded, including children.
On Monday, Israeli reconnaissance drones, or drones, were flying over the burned-out camp, of which all that remained were black metal sheets, boards and charred stakes. Traces of blood appeared on some of the tin panels.
Hamad said: When these missiles fall on a tower, there are dozens of martyrs, so what about when they are in tents?
Another citizen who introduced himself as Muhannad, who witnessed the incident, told Agence France-Presse: “When we heard the sound of the explosion, the sky suddenly lit up.”
One of the ambulance and rescue crews said after participating in extinguishing the fire: “There are charred bodies due to burns, and there is a child whose head was cut off,” indicating that the causes of the fire were “the use of weapons that produce a temperature exceeding seven thousand degrees Celsius that melts the human body and burns the wood in the tents.” And rooms for the displaced.
He added, “Rescue operations ended last night, while efforts to extinguish the fire continued for 45 minutes,” adding that the lack of fuel and water scarcity made fighting the fire difficult.
He pointed out that among the casualties were “wounded amputees,” and among the martyrs were “children, women, and the elderly.”
In the Tal al-Sultan clinic in Rafah, the bodies were collected, and an arrow was drawn pointing to the morgue, which was written in English: “Black Zone.” Men of all ages sat cross-legged and sobbed loudly.
“I had no other,” said one of them. While another said in front of another shroud, “I wish I were with you, my brother, my love.” A man said, crying, “We prepared for the new baby. She went with the baby with her.”
In the morgue, the bodies were placed in white bags with some written on them: “Woman,” “Child,” “Unknown,” or “Unknown Woman.”
Women were crying and comforting each other. In a pickup truck outside, bodies were stacked on top of each other.
Citizen Muhammad Hamad said, “Among the scenes I saw was a mother with her severed foot searching for her children. The scene is painful and unimaginable to the mind of most of the martyrs, children and women, and there is no hospital in Rafah except field hospitals.”
He added: “The scene is difficult. For the first time, I am witnessing a massacre of this magnitude…cut up, dismembered, and burned. All night long I could not sleep because of the nightmares that accompanied me.”
He pointed out that the massacre came “after the decision of the International Court of Justice to stop the war and the military operation in Rafah. But what is the point? As usual, nothing stops Israel.”
Decision of the International Court of Justice regarding Rafah
On Friday, the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations, issued orders to Israel, the occupying power, to immediately stop its military operations in the Rafah Governorate, and the necessity of maintaining the opening of the Rafah crossing, to enable the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Citizens in the place say that they took refuge in this area after the Israeli occupation army asked them to evacuate their homes in other parts of Rafah.
Citizen Abu Muhammad, who was displaced from northern Gaza five months ago to Rafah, said: “They threw leaflets asking us to go to the humanitarian zone in Tal al-Sultan, so we complied and came here.”
He added, “Yesterday, while I was eating dinner, I suddenly felt like an earthquake. The ground shook violently.”
Citizen Muhammad Abu Qamar (27 years old), displaced from the northern Gaza Strip, said, “We came to the safe zone, as the occupation claimed, and the safe place was bombed with military missiles.”
He added: “The fire broke out in the place and children, women and the elderly were burned… Every day in Gaza, we live a new Holocaust and massacre.”
Since May 6, Israel has launched a ground attack on Rafah, and the next day it occupied the Palestinian side of the Rafah land crossing, preventing the flow of humanitarian aid and the exit of the sick and wounded to receive treatment.
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of last October, which resulted in the martyrdom of 36,050 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 81,026 others, an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.