Hamas: 11 dead in Israeli strike near hospital. For its part, Israel claims to have carried out "a precision strike" against Islamic Jihad fighters.
Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians are crowded into Rafah, the vast majority displaced by Israeli fighting and air raids in the rest of the besieged Gaza Strip. The war was sparked on October 7 by an unprecedented attack carried out by Hamas commandos infiltrated from Gaza in southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,160 people, mostly civilians.