Israeli Missile Attack Turns Refugee Camp Into Rafah Hellscape, by Mike Whitney

Israel attacked a supposed place of refuge to which it had ordered the Palestinians to flee. From Mike Whitney at unz.com:

On Sunday, Israel launched multiple missile strikes on a “safe zone” in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. The explosions –which could be heard miles away– ignited a massive fire that swept rapidly through the encampment trapping many people in their tents where they were burned alive. The ghoulish scenes from the site appeared almost immediately on a number of social media channels where millions of viewers were able to see the effects of Israel’s murderous onslaught firsthand. Many of the videos that appeared on Twitter are almost too painful to watch. In one particularly horrible clip, a bearded man holds up the headless remains of a toddler who was blown to bits minutes earlier.

Another video shows desperate parents and neighbors trying to extract the charred bodies of their children from the rubble while the flames flicker in the background

A third video shows six young men moving a victim in a quilt across a smokey debris-field, the bombed-out remnants of a residential building.

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