Updated On: 10 February, 2024 07:47 AM IST | Rafah | Agencies
Israel’s stated intentions to expand its ground offensive to Rafah also prompted an unusual public backlash.

People salvage what they can amid the destruction
Israel bombed targets in overcrowded Rafah early Friday, hours after Biden administration officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge.
Airstrikes overnight and into Friday hit two residential buildings in Rafah, killing eight Palestinians, and a third strike targeted a kindergarten-turned-shelter for the displaced in central Gaza, killing at least four people, according to hospital officials and AP journalists who saw bodies arriving at hospitals.