ground offensive continues in Rafah, despite international protests

Despite criticism, the Israeli army continues its offensive on Rafah on Thursday May 30. The Palestinian Red Crescent denounced during the night the death of two of its rescuers in a “direct strike” of the Israeli army, against one of its ambulances in the western sector of Rafah. In three weeks, around a million Palestinians, according to the UN, have fled Rafah, most of them displaced persons pushed into a new exodus towards already overpopulated areas of the besieged territory. Follow our live stream.

A strategic buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The army announced on Wednesday that it had taken control “the last days” of the Philadelphia Corridor, a 14-kilometer-long buffer zone that borders the Egyptian border along the southern Gaza Strip, near Rafah. “The Philadelphia corridor served as an oxygen pipe for Hamas, through which it regularly transported weapons to the Gaza Strip”, accuses Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. Egypt has denied the existence of tunnels under the border.

Guided bombs used on Sunday. During the bombing of a displaced persons camp, the he Israeli army used American GBU-39 guided bombs with an explosive charge of 37 pounds (17 kilos), according to the New York Times and CNN, which are based, among other things, on an analysis of images of munitions debris. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that “37 pounds is not a big bomb”.

Two Israeli soldiers killed in occupied West Bank. In parallel with Gaza, the Israeli army deployed soldiers in different towns in the territory after a “ram car attack”Wednesday evening, which she said killed two Israelis near Nablus.

Several more months of war, according to Israel. Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi says war could continue “seven more months”in order to achieve the goal of destroying Hamas.


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