Air strike from Israeli captives rescue wipes out Palestinian family
The air attacks early on Monday provided cover for Israeli troops rescuing two hostages elsewhere in the city of Rafah. | Ibrahim Hasouna trudged over the rubble of his destroyed house, pointing out where family moments had taken place – where his mother and sister-in-law used to sleep, where he played with his five-year-old nieces, where he helped his one-year-old nephew take his first steps. His entire family is now dead – his parents, his two brothers, and the wife and three children of one of those brothers. The house, reduced to rubble came down on top of them in the barrage of air strikes that Israeli warplanes inflicted across Rafah before dawn on Monday. ● The attack was cover for an extraction by ground troops of two hostages held in the city that sits on the southern Gaza border.
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