Rafah

Summary

A city in the southern Gaza Strip, in ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza the site of a mid-December 2023 high-rise bombing aimed at Mohammed Shabaneh and of repeated airstrikes shown in the article’s photo captions from November 2023 to March 2024 (lines 308-310).

An intelligence source said the army destroyed a high-rise building in Rafah in mid-December, killing “dozens of civilians,” in order to try to kill Mohammed Shabaneh, commander of Hamas’ Rafah Brigade (line 308).
Wael Al-Sir, 55, who witnessed the strike believed by some Gazans to have been that assassination attempt, said most of those injured were children, and that the Dec. 20 bombing destroyed an “entire residential block” and killed at least 10 children (line 310).
Photo captions place destroyed buildings and rubble in Rafah on November 17 and 20, 2023, and February 24 and March 18, 2024, and bodies received at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah on October 24 and November 6 and 7, 2023 (lines 96, 108, 176, 190, 206, 256, 272, 316, 370).

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aliases