Despite criticism, the Israeli army continues its offensive on Rafah on Thursday May 30. The Palestinian Red Crescent denounced the death of two of its rescuers overnight, in what the NGO describes as a “direct strike” of the Israeli army against one of its ambulances in the western sector of the city. In three weeks, around a million Palestinians who were in this locality in the south of the enclave have fled, according to the UN. Most of them are displaced people pushed into a new exodus towards already overpopulated areas of the besieged territory. Follow our live stream.
Israel controls a strategic buffer zone. The Israeli army claimed Wednesday that it had taken control “the last days” of the “Philadelphia Corridor”, a 14 km-long buffer zone that borders the Egyptian border along the southern Gaza Strip. “The Philadelphia corridor served as an oxygen pipe for Hamas, through which it regularly transported weapons to the Gaza Strip”, accuses Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. Egypt has denied the existence of tunnels under the border.
Guided bombs used on Sunday. During the bombing of a displaced persons camp which left 45 dead on Sunday, theThe Israeli army used American GBU-39 guided bombs with an explosive charge of 37 pounds (17 kg), according to the New York Times And CNN, which are based, among other things, on an analysis of images of munitions debris. The spokesperson for the American National Security Council, John Kirby, estimated that “37 pounds is not a big bomb”.
Two Israeli soldiers killed in occupied West Bank. In parallel with Gaza, the Israeli army deployed soldiers in different towns in the occupied West Bank territory after a “ram car attack”Wednesday evening, which killed two Israelis near Nablus.
Several more months of war, according to an Israeli official. Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster that the war could continue “seven more months”in order to achieve the goal of destroying Hamas.