Military probing if stockpile of weapons, other combustibles, caused secondary blasts leading to dozens of deaths, insists airstrike was not in designated Gaza safe zone
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that a hidden store of weapons may have been the actual cause of a deadly blaze in southern Gaza’s Rafah, and that an airstrike that targeted an adjacent area had used small munitions that would not ignite such a fire on their own
The military suspects that the munitions or some other combustible substance it was unaware of caused a secondary explosion and a fire to spread in a complex housing displaced Gazans in Rafah, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, following an airstrike targeting two top Hamas terrorists in the area.
The attack and deaths prompted a wave of international condemnation, with Palestinians and many Arab countries calling it a “massacre.” The United Nations Security Council was set to convene an emergency meeting later on Tuesday regarding the incident, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said was a “tragic mishap.”
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