{"id":52784,"date":"2024-05-28T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52784"},"modified":"2024-05-28T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:04:36","slug":"israel-faces-global-outcry-over-rafah-strike-that-set-tent-city-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52784","title":{"rendered":"Israel faces global outcry over Rafah strike that set tent city ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israel faced a wave of international condemnation Monday over a strike that Gaza officials said killed 45 people when it set off a fire that ripped through a tent city for displaced Palestinians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel said it was looking into the &#8220;tragic accident&#8221; and its impact on civilians after the latest mass casualty event in the Gaza war, which has<br \/>\nraged since October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to already heightened tensions since Israel launched a ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in early May, the Israeli and<br \/>\nEgyptian militaries reported a &#8220;shooting incident&#8221; Monday that killed one Egyptian guard in the border area between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Both forces said they were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military said Sunday evening&#8217;s attack in the southern Rafah area had targeted and killed two senior Hamas operatives &#8212; but it also sparked a fire that Palestinians and many Arab countries condemned as a &#8220;massacre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A US National Security Council spokesperson said Israel &#8220;must take every precaution possible to protect civilians&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel faced a wave of international condemnation Monday over a strike that Gaza officials said killed 45 people when it set off a fire that ripped through a tent city for displaced Palestinians. Israel said it was looking into the &#8220;tragic accident&#8221; and its impact on civilians after the latest mass casualty event in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1622],"class_list":["post-52784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-israel-faces-global-outcry-over-rafah-strike-that-set-tent-city-ablaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}