Death toll from Israeli strikes on Rafah camp rises to 40: Gaza civil defence

Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Monday that the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah had risen to 40.

“The massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in the refugee tents northwest of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip has left 40 martyrs and 65 wounded,” Mohammad al-Mughayyir, a senior official at the civil defence agency, told AFP.

“We saw charred bodies and dismembered limbs … We also saw cases of amputations, wounded children...