Global anxiety over Gaza: Intensive shelling in Rafah, negotiations in Cairo

The Israeli army is carrying out heavy shelling today in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, to increase the “pressure” on Hamas, hours before new indirect negotiations in extremis are held in Cairo, as part of a ceasefire agreement, in which the Palestinian Islamist movement announced last night that it had given the green light. The Civil Protection in the Gaza Strip spoke of “numerous dead” overnight in Rafah. The Kuwaiti hospital, located in the city, announced that it had treated “11 dead” and “dozens of wounded” after the bombings, thus raising the initial toll of five dead. Eyewitnesses and AFP sources in the Palestinian security forces spoke of heavy airstrikes late Monday and early today, as well as intense artillery fire throughout the Gaza Strip, particularly in Rafah and its surroundings. According to these sources, self-propelled guns and tanks have been deployed near the crossing point […]
Source: News Beast

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