Israel’s military has said it’s likely that the blaze that ripped through a Rafah tent camp after air strikes, killing at least 45 people, was caused by a secondary explosion.
An initial investigation by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), published Tuesday, said the army fired two 17kg munitions targeting a pair of senior Hamas militants. Daniel Hagari, a military spokesman, said the munitions on their own would have been too small to ignite a fire on such a big scale.
Israel was looking into the possibility that a Hamas weapons dump was in the area, Hagari said. The IDF published maps showing where its weapons struck and a recording of an intercepted conversation between two Hamas fighters claiming there were weapons in the area.
