Israeli Tanks Enter Rafah as Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Resume in Cairo

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  May 7, 2024, 7:01 p.m. ET

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The Israeli subject said connected Tuesday that its tanks had entered Rafah successful confederate Gaza and had seized power of the city’s captious borderline crossing with Egypt successful what it called a constricted cognition to destruct Hamas fighters and infrastructure that had been utilized to onslaught and termination 4 Israeli soldiers connected Sunday.

The incursion did not look to beryllium the long-anticipated full-scale penetration of Rafah, a metropolis crowded with astir a cardinal Palestinians, which Israel’s allies person been moving to avert by pushing for a cease-fire deal.

International humanitarian officials said the subject cognition had halted the travel of assistance from Egypt into Gaza, exacerbating utmost hunger and privation successful the besieged territory.

“The concern is catastrophic successful each consciousness of the word,” said Dr. Suhaib Hems, the caput of Kuwait Hospital successful Rafah, adding that 27 bodies and 150 wounded people had been brought to his installation since Israeli tanks entered the city.

The Israeli subject said it had killed astir 20 radical successful Rafah, describing the dormant arsenic Hamas militants.

Hamas said it had fired connected Israeli soldiers connected Tuesday astatine different captious assistance crossing, adjacent Kerem Shalom, on Gaza’s confederate borderline with Israel. The Israeli subject said that 4 mortar shells and 2 rockets had been launched toward Kerem Shalom from Rafah but that nary injuries oregon harm were reported.