Veteran journalist Piers Morgan has demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop the ongoing genocidal war on Rafah crossing in Gaza after the Health Ministry in Gaza reported that Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 45 people, including women and children.
Witnesses said at least eight missiles struck the camp – a designated safe zone – on Sunday night at about 8.45pm local time (17:45 GMT).
The Wafa news agency, quoting the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said that many of those who died were “burned alive” inside their tents in the Tal as-Sultan area.
Morgan took to X on Monday to condemn the bombing, saying the scenes from the genocide in Rafah overnight are horrific.
He tweeted; “I’ve defended Israel’s right to defend itself after Oct 7, but slaughtering so many innocent people as they cower in a refugee camp is indefensible. Stop this now @netanyahu .
Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency said the attacks targeted the Brix camp to the west of the city of Rafah. An aerial photograph taken on May 24 shows hundreds of tents in the area, which was close to a UNRWA warehouse.
The Israeli attack followed Hamas’s first rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in months.
Israel has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since a cross-border incursion by Hamas on Oct. 7 last year killed around 1,200 people.
The military campaign has turned much of the enclave of 2.3 million people into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless and at risk of famine.
The attack comes despite a ruling by the International Court of Justice that ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.
