Hell on Rafa. Dozens of people they lost their lives on Sunday night after an Israeli bombardment.

At least 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli airstrikes on a displaced persons camp in the Rafah area of ​​the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas government said in the evening.

The shelling “killed 30 people and left dozens injured,” the Hamas government’s press service said.

Gaza’s Civil Defense agency confirmed Israeli strikes in the area, which the agency says is home to about 100,000 people displaced from other areas of the Palestinian enclave by Israel’s war. According to the service, 50 are dead and injured.

The death toll in the Tal Al-Sultan camp is still undetermined, another doctor said, adding that dozens were injured in the fire that followed the shelling, which residents were still trying to put out.

Israel’s military ‘aware’ of civilian casualties in Rafah shelling

The Israeli military said it had “neutralized” two senior Hamas officials in the strike in Rafah on Sunday.

Earlier he said he launched a bombardment with “precision munitions” against a “Hamas building complex in Rafah” where according to him “important terrorists” of the Palestinian Islamist movement were operating, adding that he is “aware” that “civilians have been harmed” in the area and that the incident is “under review”.

“Aircraft struck a Hamas compound in Rafah where important Hamas terrorists were operating,” Israel’s military said via X. “The strike was carried out against legitimate targets under international law, using precision munitions, based on accurate intelligence about the use of the area by Hamas”.

The Israeli military is “aware of reports indicating that civilians in the area were harmed as a result of the strike and the resulting fire”; the “incident is under investigation,” he added.