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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gazan residents of Rafah inspected the damages of a residential tower on Saturday (March 9) while some sat among their belongings in the rubble of al-Masri Tower where around 300 families were sheltering.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Israeli army struck the residential area overnight displacing scores of people, some of whom were already displaced. There were no initial reports of casualties.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The residents said they had received a 30 minute advance warning of the attack and were not in the building at the time of the bombing, but added it was too short a time to evacuate, people panicked and chaos ensued.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;They told us to evacuate the tower within half an hour... People were startled, running down the stairs, some fell, it was chaos,&quot; said Mohammad al-Nabrees, a displaced Gazan from Khan Younis, who was sheltering for the time being in al-Masri tower.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At least 30,878 Palestinians have been killed and 72,402 have been wounded, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday, in Israel&#x27;s military offensive on Gaza launched after Hamas&#x27; Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, in which Israel said 1,200 people were killed and 253 abducted.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Swathes of the Gaza Strip have been laid to waste and nearly the entire population has been made homeless. -- <strong>Report from Reuters</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><strong></strong><span><strong></strong><em>(Production: Bassam Masoud, Nuha Sharaf)</em><strong></strong></span></div>

<p>Gazan residents of Rafah inspected the damages of a residential tower on Saturday (March 9) while some sat among their belongings in the rubble of al-Masri Tower where around 300 families were sheltering.</p>

Gazan residents of Rafah inspected the damages of a residential tower on Saturday (March 9) while some sat among their belongings in the rubble of al-Masri Tower where around 300 families were sheltering.

Israeli strike on Rafah tower displaces around 300 families

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Israeli strike on Rafah tower displaces around 300 families

Reuters

Published Mar 09, 2024 06:36 PM PHT

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