Locals inspected the damage after Israel launched deadly strikes on Rafah, Gaza, on February 12.

More than half of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million population is now crammed into the city on the border with Egypt.

US President Joe Biden has said Israel must make "credible" efforts to protect the civilians sheltering in Rafah.

The Israeli army announced, on Monday, that it had managed to release two detainees who were being held by Hamas. Hamas fighters kidnapped them on October 7, during an operation in Rafah, on Sunday and Monday evening.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday morning that the Israeli operation that allowed the release of two hostages in Rafah, located in the far south of the Strip near the border with Egypt, led to the death of “about a hundred martyrs.” Most of them are children and women."
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip later announced that the death toll in the Strip had risen to 28,340 dead and 67,984 wounded since the beginning of the war.
For its part, the Israeli army announced, on Monday, details of the liberation of two detainees who were in the hands of Hamas, during an operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said on his account on the “X” platform that the two men who were liberated by the forces were Fernando Marman (60 years old) and Louis Haar (70 years old).


Israeli bombing from the site of the liberation of the Israeli hostages in the city of Rafah