The British Middle East Eye website published a report on the Rafah massacre carried out by the occupation forces the day before yesterday, Sunday, in which 45 Palestinians were killed, including 23 women, children and the elderly, while 249 others were wounded.
After sunrise the next day, the survivors of the Israeli bombing returned to the displacement camp in Rafah to assess the damage. Children peeked into the window of a car gone, men searched the charred wreckage, and journalists took photos of charred food cans.
Palestinian families were inside these tents that caught fire after the Israeli army bombed them northwest of Rafah. Many of them had just finished the evening prayer, some were asleep and others were gathering with their families.
Layan Al-Fayoum, a survivor of the attack, said, “We were sitting in safety when we heard the explosion, and it was very sudden. The bombs fell without warning.”
The girl came out of her tent to see what happened, and she was shocked by the massive inferno that had engulfed the place. She told Middle East Eye, “The fire was huge. We saw the tents burning, and then we had to retrieve the pieces of torn bodies and martyred children.”
Eyewitnesses say that the attack occurred around 10 p.m., and Israeli planes dropped bombs on the camp, causing a fire that destroyed 14 tents.
