Another bloody attack in the Rafah refugee area, Israel and the US speak out

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 29: Gaza officials announced a new airstrike at a refugee camp west of the city of Rafah on May 28, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens of others.
Reuters quoted Palestinian health officials as saying at least 12 of the victims were women. The airstrike is believed to have been carried out by Israel in the displaced persons' tent area in Al-Mawasi west of the city of Rafah , which is designated as a "humanitarian area".
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh described the new attack in Rafah as a "massacre" and called for the implementation of a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Tel Aviv to stop attacking the city. city.
Israel immediately denied involvement in the latest attack, which occurred shortly before the United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on the May 26 attack in Rafah that killed 45 people.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident on May 26 a "tragic accident" but vowed to continue the fight against Hamas. Israeli tanks are said to have reached the center of Rafah city on May 28.
Regarding the attack on May 26, the Israeli army said on May 28 that their weapons could not cause a large fire after the airstrike. "Our ammunition alone cannot create a fire of such scale," Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said of the preliminary investigation results. Tel Aviv said the airstrike targeted and killed two senior members of Hamas.
He also said he was investigating the possibility that weapons were stored right next to the target, which could have caused the fire because the 17 kg of bombs and ammunition used in the attack was too small to cause such a large fire. .
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said it was "deeply saddened by the tragic loss at Rafah" and would closely monitor the outcome of Israel's investigation. He noted that preliminary investigation results showed that the allied country "used the smallest bomb in its inventory, targeting terrorist forces 1.7 km away from the Al-Mawasi area, where the fire occurred." ".
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said the US assesses that the operation Israel is conducting in Rafah "remains limited in scope". Similarly, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the US does not believe the ally's actions at Rafah are equivalent to a full-scale campaign and have crossed President Joe Biden's red line.
Mr. Kirby also described in detail a "large ground campaign" that could change US policy: "We have not seen them storm Rafah, we have not seen them send large units, with large numbers of troops. in rows and formations in a coordinated operation against multiple ground targets. We have not seen that yet."
"With the results of Sunday's attack, I have no policy changes to speak of. It just happened, the Israelis are investigating," Mr. Kirby affirmed.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper