Tel al-Sultan attack explained

Tel al-Sultan attack
Location:Kuwaiti Peace Camp I, Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, Gaza Strip
Date:26 May 2024
Time:~20:45
Partof:the Rafah offensive and refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
Coordinates:31.309°N 34.2431°W
Fatalities:45–50 Palestinians
2 Hamas officials (per Israel)
Injuries:200+
Type:Airstrikes

On 26 May 2024, the Israeli Air Force attacked a displacement camp in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, allegedly targeting a compound with two senior Hamas commanders. The attack set the compound on fire and killed between 45 and 50 Palestinians, including women and children, and injured over 200. Sometimes referred to as the Rafah tent massacre (مجزرة الخيم),[1] [2] it was the deadliest incident of the Rafah offensive.

When Israel invaded Rafah and ordered the evacuation of its east, some citizens fled to other parts of the city, like Tel Al-Sultan, seeking safety. One week before the bombing, Israel had designated the neighborhood as a "safe zone" and dropped leaflets instructing Palestinians to move there. Two days before the attack, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Rafah,[3] [4] widely recognized as calling for a halt to the offensive, but Israel interpreted the order differently and continued its operations.

On the night of the incident, Israel struck the neighborhood with two U.S. made GBU-39 missiles.[5] The strike ignited a fire in the "Kuwaiti Peace" tent camp, trapping and burning the civilians residing in it. Israel claimed the strike targeted a Hamas compound near the camp, accidentally causing the fire. However, independent investigations showed that the strike location was inside the camp itself.[6]

Images of the attack spread internationally, with them being described as "some of the worst" of the war. The attack received widespread condemnation, with some groups calling it a war crime and a massacre.

Background

After evacuation orders were issued by Israel during the Israel-Hamas war, many areas of Gaza became depopulated, with refugees primarily traveling to Rafah. Rafah became dense and overcrowded, with over 1.4 million civilians sheltering in the area.[7] However, when Israel first invaded the city, it ordered the eastern neighborhoods evacuated. An estimated 950,000 civilians fled, going to other parts of southern Gaza designated as safe, including parts of Rafah.[8] [9] [10]

Two days before the attack, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to prevent genocidal actions in Rafah.[11] The order was widely interpreted as obliging Israel to stop the Rafah offensive, and the European Union said Israel was violating the order by continuing.[12] [13] However, Israel interpreted the order as merely to comply with international law, not necessarily stop the offensive. The Euro-Med Monitor reported that in the 48 hours since the order was issued, Israel had launched over 60 airstrikes in the city.[14]

The attack was noted to come shortly after Hamas launched rockets at Tel Aviv, the first time in months. The IDF said eight rockets were fired from the Rafah area, though were intercepted.[15]

Designation as a "safe zone"

Many sources reported that the area that Israel attacked had previously been designated by Israel as a "safe zone".[16] CBC News showed pictures of Israeli leaflets that read:

For your safety, the Israeli Defence Force is asking you to leave these areas immediately and to go to known shelters in Deir el Balah or the humanitarian area in Tel al-Sultan through Beach Road. And don't blame us after we warned you.[17]

NPR reported that Israeli leaflets urging civilians to evacuate to Tel al-Sultan had been dropped one week before the bombing.[18] Witnesses speaking to Agence France Press confirmed they only came to Tel al-Sultan on instructions from IDF leaflets.[19] Abed Mohammed Al-Attar, whose family would later be killed in the attack, said the Israeli forces had told residents that this area was a safe zone.[20]

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that the location had been designated by Israel as a "humanitarian area" and it was not included in areas that Israel's military ordered evacuated earlier this month.[21] [22]

Attack

On the night of 26 May, Israeli fighter jets struck the "Kuwaiti Peace" tent camp in Tel al-Sultan.[23] The camp was noted to be from the largest UNRWA humanitarian aid storage warehouse in the Gaza Strip.[24] [25] [26] Multiple people were killed and injured in the initial explosion. Witnesses reported "a deadly hail of shrapnel, then the sound of screaming". A dead woman was later found with shrapnel in her lungs and heart.

A witness said that he heard an explosion, walked out of his house, and saw smoke in a nearby street. Survivors of the attack said it "burned people alive" and destroyed an entire block. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said civilians were trapped in the flames. A video verified by NBC News showed Palestinians screaming for help in tents "engulfed by flames" with civil defense crews attempting to stop the fire and rescue people. Other videos displayed burnt corpses, including one of a decapitated child. Paramedics later retrieved these bodies.[27] [28] The attack was described as a massacre by some media outlets.

Israel stated it had targeted a Hamas compound and killed two senior Hamas commanders: the West Bank Chief of Staff Yassin Rabia and senior official Khaled Nagar, "in accordance with international law".[29] John Kirby stated that Hamas confirmed the deaths of the two commanders.[30] However, witnesses speaking to Mondoweiss and CNN said that no militants were found in the camp.[31] [32]

Casualties

The Gaza Health Ministry (GHM), stated the attack killed at least 45 people, and ActionAid UK said it killed 50.[8] The GHM said that among the fatalities were at least 12 women, eight children, and three elderly.[33] Doctors Without Borders said that dozens of civilians were injured,[34] with the GHM eventually confirming 65 injuries.[35] It later raised the number of injuries to over 200.

Victims of the attack were rushed to the Emirati Hospital,[36] but the GHM said that Rafah hospitals didn't have enough resources to deal with the number of injured people. The only hospital in Rafah had eight beds and no ICU.[37]

Aftermath

Two days after the attack, the tent camp was again struck by Israel. By that time, Israel had attacked the city twice, killing at least 29 people.[38] One family that initially stayed in the camp after the attack was killed, with two surviving brothers relocating to Al-Mawasi.[1] More than two weeks after the attack, the conclusions of the full IDF investigation had not been made public.

The attack partially motivated American student protestors in Columbia University to create a third encampment during the university's alumni weekend.[39]

Analysis and investigation

The attack drew multiple independent investigations and analyses from media outlets and military analysts. Israel also investigated the incident, saying it was a 'tragic mishap'.[40] Other analyses argued that Israel deliberately targeted civilians.

Target of the attack

Israel said the target of the attack was a "Hamas compound" and two senior Hamas militants, whom it identified as Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar.[41] On 3 June, an IDF investigation claimed that the military believed "there were no civilians" in the area of the strike.[42] Earlier, the IDF released surveillance footage that showed civilians near the structure. In response, a military analyst questioned if Israel knew there were civilians nearby and accepted them as collateral damage.

Satellite image analysis by India Today located the site of the airstrike to "Kuwait Peace Camp", leading the newspaper to conclude "satellite images show Israel targeting Rafah refugee camps".[43] The Washington Post analyzed satellite imagery and found "more than a dozen tent-like structures" around the tin structures targeted.[44] The Guardian located the attack to the "edge of rows of tents" of the Kuwaiti camp, and quoted a resident who said this location was "a medical point surrounded by a lot of tents, in an area with more than 4,000 people". A New York Times investigation concluded that Israel directly struck the camp, saying the metal structures targeted were part of the camp and intended for civilian use.[6] Israeli newspaper Haaretz stated the IDF struck a "dense" area. In June, NBC News said that analysis of the attack and interviews with survivors indicated that Israeli commanders should have known there were civilians in the area of the strike.[45]

Al Jazeera's fact checking agency concluded the strike deliberately targeted the camp.[46] The Palestinian Authority,[47] Egypt,[48] witnesses and multiple humanitarian groups also said Israel deliberately targeted the refugee camp.[49] [50]

Israel claimed that the strike took place outside of the "al-Mawasi humanitarian zone",[51] which was confirmed by a Forensic Architecture analysis. However, it noted that the strike location was within the previous borders of the zone, and that the IDF did not effectively communicate this change to refugees.[52]

Munitions used

Israel said two missiles equipped with of explosives were used in the strikes. Analyses of video footage by The New York Times and CNN showed that the munition was a variant on the US-made guided GBU-39 bomb (sometimes called a missile),[53] though the exact variant was unclear.[54]

Israel stated the use of precision munitions was as an effort to minimize civilian casualties, however, other military experts doubted this. USAF sergeant Wes J. Bryant, who has experience with GBU-39, characterized the Israeli strike as "negligent". Bryant said GBU-39 should not have been used given that civilians were in the "effects radius" of the airstrike; and that GBU-39 should generally not be used near civilian encampments.[55] Trevor Ball, a United States Army explosives technician, said the bombs' fragments can travel up to 600 meters, concluding "so that just doesn’t check out if they’re trying to limit casualties".[56]

Mark Cancian, a Marine Corps Reserves colonel, said the large debris field indicated the bombs appear to be programmed to detonate in the air before impact. This decision by the IDF would ensure that the targets were killed but it would also maximize area damage and risk unintended deaths.

Fire

The cause of the fire is unclear. The IDF said the fire was "unexpected", adding "our munition alone could not have ignited a fire." Frederic Gras, a French munitions analyst, questioned this statement, arguing "any explosion starts a fire as soon as flammable products are in the vicinity."[57] Likewise, a U.S. Army bomb diffusing expert said "a bomb of any size" can start a fire, as explosives release a lot of heat that can cause materials found in camps to catch on fire.[58] Multiple sources pointed out that refugee camps typically contain flammable material, such as cooking gas canisters which could have been ignited by the airstrike.[59] Turkish Special Forces officer Abdullah Agar said Israel should have known that the GBU-39 can easily cause fire in a camp full of flammable materials like clothes and tarpaulin tents.[60]

On May 27, Israeli officials initially told their American counterparts that they believed the fire was caused by shrapnel from the strike igniting a nearby fuel tank.[61] [62] The same day, an unnamed Gazan narrator said the explosion was caused by a "Hamas jeep loaded with weapons".[63] Later, the IDF suggested that a militant warehouse containing ammunition or "some other material" in the area caused the fire. It also released an Arabic phone call, supposedly made by Hamas, in which they clearly say that the Israeli missile was not responsible for the fire, that the fire was caused by secondary explosions, and the secondary explosions came from an ammunition warehouse.[64] However, James Cavanaugh, who worked at the ATF, said the fire did not indicate "some giant stash that exploded."[65] The New York Times reviewed numerous videos and did not find evidence of a significant secondary explosion.

Reactions

Domestic

Palestine

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad condemned the attack, labeling it a massacre and calling for the Palestinian people to "rise up and march" against Israel. A spokesperson for the Presidency of the Palestinian Authority condemned the incident, calling it a massacre and called for an intervention.[66] [67] A survivor of the attack stated, "They told us that this area is safe... but now there is no safe place in Gaza. There are massacres everywhere."[68] A lawyer with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated the attack showed Israel was ignoring the International Court of Justice's interim orders.[69]

Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the incident was a "tragic mistake".[70] Initially, the Israeli military said the attack was "under review", while its top military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi called the incident "very grave".[71]

Some Israelis celebrated the attack, likening it to the Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer, in which bonfires are lit to commemorate a second century Rabbi. The analogy was made by Israel's Channel 14 senior journalist Yinon Magal, who posted pictures on social media captioned: "The main lighting of the year in Rafah" and by i24NEWS' Naveh Dromi commenting "Happy Holiday." Both posts were later removed. The comparison was also made by far-right rapper Yoav Eliasi, who posted videos on Telegram in celebration of the attack and also likened it to the holiday. Some Israeli social media users also shared memes and jokes about the attack, while others condemned the posts.[72] [73] [74]

International

Governments

Spain, Ireland, and Norway condemned the attack and urged Israel to halt the offensive in a joint statement.

Supranational

Humanitarian aid groups

A British doctor in Rafah said that videos of the attack were "truly some of the worst that I have seen".[111]

Following the attack, several aid organisations in this part of the city were forced to close their operations and move them to other parts of the Gaza Strip, including the Al Quds field hospital run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, a clinic supported by Doctors Without Borders and kitchens run by the World Central Kitchen.[112] [113] [114]

Other

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Notes and References

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