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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruth Michaelson

Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill scores in Gaza as fears grow of push into Rafah

Two boys look at the rubble of a damaged building
The scence of an Israeli attack on Rafah on Sunday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering.

Amid intensifying divisions in Israel’s government over the war, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was expected to arrive in the region on Sunday, his fifth trip since the militant group attacked Israel on 7 October, killing at least 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage.

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