At least 20 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded in Rafah after Israeli air strikes hit a camp for those displaced by the war in Gaza.
The attack on an area which had reportedly been designated as a humanitarian zone came hours after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv, with three of the eight missiles being intercepted by Israel’s sophisticated air defence system.
It was the first Hamas attack on central Israel in four months.
The latest hostilities were in defiance of a ruling by the International Criminal Court which called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes along with three key Hamas figures Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, there were a large number of casualties in the attack on the Tal Al-Sultan camp, which saw tents set alight.
It said, on X, that it was transporting a large number of victims by ambulance.