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00:00 Israeli air strikes pound Rafah as a brigade of IDF tanks seize control of Gaza's border
00:09 crossing with Egypt. Israel's mounting Rafah incursion comes as a brief glimmer of hope
00:15 in the seven-month war was dashed this morning with dancing in the streets turned bloody.
00:20 Hamas accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected the proposal
00:27 insisting it did not meet demands. In Brussels, the EU's top policy boss, Joseph Burrell,
00:34 condemned the ongoing Rafah offensive.
00:36 I am afraid that this is going to cause again a lot of casualties, civilian casualties,
00:42 whatever they say. There are 600,000 children in Gaza. They will be pushed to so-called
00:49 safe zones. There is no safe zones in Gaza.
00:56 This morning, families in Rafah mourned their loved ones killed by Israeli air strikes.
01:02 At least 23 Palestinians, including six women and five children under the age of three,
01:08 died in the attacks. It brings the total death toll in Gaza to more than 34,500 people, according
01:16 to local health officials.
01:18 Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Palestinians now begin to flee Rafah for another Israeli
01:24 designated safe zone, al-Mawassi. The IDF wrote on social media the coastal town would
01:30 be fitted with extra supplies.
01:33 But anger is growing on home soil as protesters in Israel's capital, Tel Aviv, took to the
01:39 streets demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to agree to a ceasefire.
01:47 Police on horseback were on scene to clear demonstrators clogging the highway, with Netanyahu
01:52 vowing to continue the campaign until Hamas is destroyed.
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