Israeli airstrike on Rafah kills 12 Palestinians, Gaza medics say

Palestinians fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah during an Israeli ground and air offensive in the city, May 28, 2024. Defence experts who've reviewed debris images from an Israeli airstrike that ignited a deadly fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians question why Israel didn't use smaller, more precise weapons when so many civilians were nearby. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

JERUSALEM (Reuters): Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday (May 30) and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, say Gaza medics.

Israel pressed on with its offensive on Rafah a day after saying its forces had taken control of a buffer zone along the nearby border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, giving it effective authority over Gaza's entire land frontier.