Tel Aviv (agencies)
Yesterday, the Israeli army announced that 8 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat operations in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said in a statement that an explosion killed them in an armored personnel carrier they were traveling in. According to available information, it was not clear at first whether the armored vehicle had hit a mine or whether it had been directly attacked by Palestinian faction fighters.
The armored personnel carrier was part of a convoy headed to a building in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, which the army had taken control of early yesterday morning.
The Israeli army began an attack on the city of Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, on May 7, despite warnings from the international community that the city was crowded with displaced Palestinians.
Since the start of the Israeli ground attack on the Gaza Strip on October 27, 306 Israeli soldiers have been killed, including the eight soldiers who were killed yesterday, in a toll that is among the worst for the Israeli army in one day.
Palestinians, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced yesterday that the death toll had risen, with 30 dead recorded in the 24 hours until yesterday morning, while the total number of injured reached 85,197, and most of the victims were children and women.
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