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In his speech to Congress on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that in his latest go to to Rafah, when he requested what number of civilians had been killed in Rafah, the commander advised him “virtually none, excluding a single incident the place shrapnel from a bomb hit a Hamas weapons depot and unintentionally killed two dozen individuals.”

Info First: Netanyahu could have been advised that, however the declare itself is verifiably false: A number of strikes in Rafah have resulted in civilian casualties.

The “incident” Netanyahu referenced occurred in Might and killed no less than 45 individuals at a camp for displaced Palestinians. The airstrike injured greater than 200 after a hearth broke out on the camp following the strike, most of them girls and youngsters, based on the Gaza Well being Ministry and Palestinian medics.

In the identical week of that strike, no less than 29 Palestinians had been killed in two separate Israeli assaults on displacement camps in Rafah, based on Palestinian and UN officers.

CNN has seen firsthand video shot by stringers in Rafah and spoken to a number of well being officers, humanitarian employees and eyewitnesses who’ve reported civilian fatalities on account of Israel’s navy assault on the southern metropolis.

Gaza’s Ministry of Well being doesn’t distinguish in its reporting between combatant and civilian deaths however has beforehand stated that some 70% of casualties in all of Gaza have been girls and youngsters.