INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for
the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.The Israeli military said its air force struck a Hamas compound
as a result of the strike and fire that was ignited several civilians in the area were harmed
dozens others, most of them women and children, were wounded in the attack.The strike took place in Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in western
Rafah, where thousands of people were taking shelter after many fled the eastern areas of the city where Israeli forces began a ground
offensive over two weeks ago.The International Committee of the Red Cross said its field hospital in Rafah was receiving an influx of
casualties, and that other hospitals also were taking in a large number of patients.Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri described the
Rafah.Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military said eight projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Rafah, the southern tip of
the Gaza Strip where Israel kept up operations despite a ruling by the top U.N
court on Friday ordering it to stop attacking the city.A number of the projectiles were intercepted, it said
There were no reports of casualties.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was convening his war cabinet later on Sunday to discuss continued
Israel argues that the U.N
Aviv.Israel says it wants to root out Hamas fighters holed up in Rafah and rescue hostages it says are being held in the area, but its
assault has worsened the plight of civilians and caused an international outcry.On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least five Palestinians
in Rafah, according to local medical services
The Gaza health ministry identified the dead as civilians.Israeli tanks have probed around the edges of Rafah, near the crossing point from
Gaza into Egypt, and have entered some of its eastern districts, residents say, but have not yet entered the city in force since the start
Israel launched the operation after Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israeli communities on Oct
7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.Fighting also continued in the northern Gaza
area of Jabaliya, the scene of intense combat earlier in the war
During one raid, the military said it found a weapons storage site with dozens of rocket parts and weapons at a school.It denied Hamas
statements that Palestinian fighters had abducted an Israeli soldier.Hamas media said an Israeli airstrike on a house in a neighborhood near
Jabaliya killed 10 people and wounded others.TRUCE TALKSEfforts to agree a halt to the fighting and return more than 120 hostages have been
blocked for weeks but there were some signs of movement this weekend following meetings between Israeli and U.S
new proposals, his office said.A second Hamas official, Izzat El-Reshiq, said the group had not received anything from the mediators on new
get more aid into Gaza after more than seven months of a war that has caused widespread destruction and hunger in the enclave.Khaled Zayed
of the Egyptian Red Crescent told Reuters 200 trucks of aid, including four fuel trucks, were expected to enter Gaza on Sunday through Kerem
Shalom.It follows an agreement between U.S
President Joe Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Friday to temporarily send aid via the Kerem Shalom crossing, bypassing
showing what it said were aid trucks as they entered Kerem Shalom, which before the conflict was the main commercial crossing station
between Israel, Egypt and Gaza.The Rafah crossing has been shut for almost three weeks, since Israel took control of the Palestinian side of
the crossing as it stepped up its offensive.Egypt has been increasingly alarmed at the prospect of large numbers of Palestinians entering
its territory from Gaza and has refused to open its side of the Rafah crossing.Israel has said it is not restricting aid flows and has
opened up new crossing points in the north as well as cooperating with the United States, which has built a temporary floating pier for aid
deliveries.Source: Reuters--Agencies
