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ISRAEL'S atrocious use of air-to-ground missiles to attack a camp of displaced Palestinians near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 45 innocent women, children, and men and seriously wounded hundreds more. The attack ignited a fire that destroyed the camp, where thousands of people had fled to escape Israeli bombings around Rafah, which is on the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt. This is one more "tragic mistake," as Israel's government called it, accepting blame for what will go down in history as one of the worst of many atrocities committed by Israel in its obsessive, relentless effort to eliminate Hamas, whose fighters killed over 1,100 people in their attacks on the country's south on Oct. 7, 2023.
This violent Islamist group, branded a terrorist organization by some Western nations, controls the Gaza Strip. It not only mounted vicious attacks against Israeli soldiers, and on civilian settlements and a music concert, on October 7, but also took over 125 people hostage and brought them to Gaza, where its fighters hid them in hundreds of underground tunnels and fired rockets at Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is held responsible for appeasing Hamas, allowing it to receive money from Arab states and being totally unprepared for the October 7 attacks despite intelligence warnings, a British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) documentary says.
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