Death toll from Rafah attack rises to 40: Report

The death toll from Israel’s attack on the tent camp at Tal as-Sultan has risen to 40, the Palestinian Wafa news agency said citing local sources. 

Most of the victims were women and children, it noted.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was quoted as saying that many of the people inside the tents were “burned alive”. The PRCS also told the agency that hospitals in the area “are incapable of handling this large number of victims as a result of the [Israeli] occupation’s deliberate destruction of the health system in Gaza”.