On the night of May 26 to 27, the Israeli army bombed a camp for displaced people, resulting in the death of at least 45 people, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, administered by Hamas. In the images that The world was able to verify, we can distinguish in particular the bodies of children.
If the Israeli authorities have deplored the death of civilians, they believe that the tragedy was not directly caused by their strike, described as ” precise “ And “planned”, but by secondary explosions leading to a fire of unexpected magnitude. What about it?
The target site: a camp for displaced people where children lived
The “Al-Salam 1” camp was set up north of the town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, by the Kuwaiti NGO Al-Salam, from January 2. The association then affirms “build emergency accommodation for the Gazan people”, to the tune of 1,000 units, to compensate for the destruction of residential areas in Gaza. To accompany its call for donations from Kuwaitis, the NGO broadcast, on January 6, images of work in progress, on Instagram. We can see the wooden structures of future shelters, similar to those which will be destroyed on the night of May 26 to 27.
In a communication video posted online by the NGO on February 23, children receive clothes, distributed by members of the association.
A “targeted” strike with considerable collateral damage
On the night of May 26 to 27, the Israeli army bombed the site. In the images it broadcasts, two structures forming part of the camp were targeted and then destroyed in an explosion. Israel claims to have used two bombs with a low explosive charge, of 17 kg, the “smaller missiles” available to its fighter planes. Debris filmed on site allowed the New York Times to identify them as remains of American-made GBU-39 bombs. The objective claimed by Israel: to kill two Hamas executives who, according to its information, were to meet there.
If the Israeli army insists on the precision of this strike, the collateral victims are nevertheless numerous. In the video released by Israel, four people can be seen walking in the immediate vicinity of the IDF targets. In the moments preceding the bombing, several of them began to run away, before disappearing in the cloud of the explosion.
Above all, many people, including several children, were burned to death in the fire caused by the strike. On particularly violent images, which we choose not to publish, The world was able to identify at least eight bodies extracted from the rubble, including that of a child and a teenager.
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