NYT-As many as 25 people were killed and 50 wounded on Friday in a strike amid tents housing displaced people in Al-Mawasi, a coastal community in the southern Gaza Strip, near the city of Rafah, according to aid agencies and Gazan health officials. Al-Mawasi contains a zone where the Israeli military has told people fleeing the fighting in Rafah to go for their safety, though such zones have also come under fire during the war. …
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its volunteers counted 18 dead and 35 injured people from the attack. The Health Ministry in Gaza later said 25 people were killed and 50 wounded. The International Committee of the Red Cross said its nearby field hospital had received 22 dead and 45 wounded, though it was not clear whether all the casualties were taken there. …
****************AP: Witnesses whose relatives died in one of the bombardments near a Red Cross field hospital told The Associated Press that Israeli forces fired a second volley that killed people who came out of their tents. …
Israel is pushing ahead with the military operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from fighting elsewhere in Gaza. Most have now fled Rafah, but the United Nations says no place in Gaza is safe and humanitarian conditions are dire as families shelter in tents and cramped apartments.
Biden continues to send military aid, and to attempt to placate young voters by cancelling student debt. He is a fully “transactional” president, hoping that bribes will gain him victory in the coming election. This remains to be scene, and the price of a Trump victory will be the death of all life on Earth, since Trump has promised – and will do so – to “Drill, baby, drill.” He is flanked by that poisonous, villainous entity, Joe Manchin, who I thought had gone away. But no such luck.