Israeli airstrikes killed between 20 and 30 people in Rafah Sunday night, including at least five children.

Among the slain children was a one-year-old boy whose parents had been trying to have a child for 10 years before he was finally born.

“This is who they are targeting,” the boy’s uncle, Mahmoud Abu Taha, said in a video shot by CNN in the courtyard of Rafah’s Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital. “This is their objective. This is the generation they’re looking for. This is the safe Rafah they talk about.”

As Abu Taha spoke, he lifted the lifeless body of his nephew toward the camera.

“His name is Deif-Allah (meaning guest in Arabic) and he was indeed a guest,” Abu Taha further told Reuters. “He came as a guest after (his parents) longed for (him) for so long, after 10 years.”

“Ten people (were killed), the mother, her daughter, her granddaughters, her grandson, her son-in-law, their daughters and relatives, everyone. They’re all gone, all 10 of them,” Abu Taha added.

As the threat of a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah still looms, the Israeli Defense Forces have continued to regularly bomb Gaza’s southernmost city, where more than 1.5 million Gazans have fled seeking relative........

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