Posted on 05/28/2024 7:37:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
The Israeli military suspects munitions or some other combustible substance it was unaware of caused a secondary explosion and a fire to spread in a complex housing displaced Gazans in southern Gaza’s Rafah, killing Palestinian civilians, following an airstrike on two top Hamas terrorists in the area.
The military says it had been tracking Hamas commanders Yassin Rabia and Khaled Najjar ahead of the strike on a compound they were in on Sunday night, in the Tel Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah. According to the IDF’s intelligence, the area had been used for Hamas activity, with a rocket launcher just a few dozen meters away from where the two commanders were killed.
The military says the strike did not take place in the designated “humanitarian zone” in the al-Mawasi region on the coast, where the military has called Palestinians to evacuate to. The targeted Hamas compound is more than a kilometer away from the humanitarian zone.
According to the IDF, the strike was not intended to harm any civilians and it had carried out steps ahead of the attack to ensure that no women or children were in the Hamas compound.
Israeli fighter jets also used two small munitions in the strike, each with a 17-kilogram warhead (37-pound), in an attempt to prevent any civilian casualties, given the close proximity to the camp for displaced Palestinians.
Still, following the strike, a fire spread in the adjacent complex where Palestinian civilians were sheltering. According to Hamas health authorities in Gaza, 45 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
The two small missiles on their own would not have been enough to spark the fire, according to the IDF’s initial probe.
The military was further investigating what exactly had sparked the fire. The IDF’s initial probe suspects ammunition, weapons, or some other material was stored in the area of the strike, causing a secondary blast and a fire that spread and killed Palestinian civilians.
yep
They were all told to get out of the city, many months ago.
Stupid Hamas groupies.
When you hit one part of the tunnel network, it often sets off secondary explosions at other points in the network.
Hamas commanders hide in safe areas surrounded by human shields. What a surprise.
Yes, the only plausible explanation. Hamas bad guys sitting on lots of munitions that detonated as a secondary explosion. Are any Hamas characters residing somewhere without weaponry? No. Kill them all.
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So after more than a month’s warning to get to the safe zone, Hamas makes sure there are people who are not in the safe zone, and then parks a truck full of incendiary explosives next to that place. And these are the good guys, according to the popular culture.
Secondary explosion?
Sounds like the IDF hit a target Hamas was protecting with willing civilians.
Sucks to be them.
/bingo
Wow I was on X, and there is so much hate for Bibi on there. Calling him a war criminal. The claim is you can call Bibi a war criminal and that does not amount to Jew hatred. I would argue that perhaps, and this is a big perhaps, the ongoing bombing of Gaza might be a bit over done. Doesn’t make him a war criminal.
That incident apparently took place in a ‘designated zone’ - people had been told to move out of central Rafah and go there.
Which anti-Semite FReeper added FR keyword israellies? The correct keyword is hamaslies or hamaspropaganda.
That has been repeatedly refuted by the IDF, with them saying the target was exactly 1 KM from any designated safe zone. It was a free fire zone
No, it took place OUTSIDE of the safe zone, nearly a kilometer away.
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