Rafah Massacre

May 26, 2024

On May 26, 2024, the IOF carried out a massacre at a tent camp in Tel al-Sultan, setting fire to a Palestinian displacement camp. The week before the massacre, the Israeli military had distributed Arabic language leaflets instructing Palestinians to go to the “humanitarian area in Tel al-Sultan.” The leaflets ominously warned the readers, “Don’t blame us after we warned you.” The strike which used American-made GBU-39 bombs, killed 45 Palestinians, including 8 children, burning some of them alive in their tents. Many of those killed had been displaced multiple times.

This brutal massacre comes two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah.