The city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip has been left in ruins following Israel’s military operation, which the Israeli military has described as “limited”. The scale of destruction is stark, with entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble and widespread devastation.
The Israeli military has attributed the destruction to the presence of booby-trapped tunnels and homes used by Hamas fighters.
However, the extent of the destruction has raised questions about the nature of the operation and its impact on civilians.
The military has announced that it has uncovered dozens of tunnel shafts and rocket launchers in the Philadelphi corridor, a area seized by the Israeli military along the Gaza-Egypt border. The military claims that Hamas has used these tunnels to smuggle weapons into Gaza from Egypt.
According to reports, the Israeli military has killed over 900 Hamas fighters in Rafah and is close to defeating Hamas’s Rafah brigade. However, the long-term strategy for the region remains unclear, and Hamas has already begun to regroup in other areas where Israeli forces have withdrawn.
