Israel faced widespread international condemnation on Monday after an Israeli air strike killed dozens of Palestinians in a camp for displaced civilians in Rafah.
Palestinian health officials said at least 45 people had been killed and more than 200 injured, after fires and explosions triggered by the strike ripped through the crowded tent city in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, which housed people who had fled fighting elsewhere in the besieged enclave.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the strike a “tragic accident” and the country’s military prosecutor ordered an investigation into the strike, adding that Israel regretted “any harm to uninvolved civilians”.