Early Monday morning in Palestine, over 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in Rafah.
More than half of Palestine’s population, 1.5 million people, live in Rafah — the overwhelming majority of them displaced by the violence elsewhere in Palestine into the overcrowded city. Israel had previously designated the city of Rafah as a “safe space,” meaning that Palestinians now have nowhere to go to escape the conflict.
The attacks occurred at the same time as the Super Bowl in the US, and as images from Rafah hit people’s timelines, the hashtag #SuperBowlMassacre started trending online.
Facts about the ongoing conflict are extremely hard to verify, but here's an approximate timeline of what transpired:
2:30 p.m. EST/9:30 p.m. Israel
6:30 p.m. EST/1:30 a.m. Israel
6:49 p.m. EST/1:49 a.m. Israel:
6:50 p.m. EST/1:50 a.m. Israel
Approximately between 6–8 p.m. EST/1–3 a.m. Israel
7 p.m. EST/2 a.m. Israel
Between 6–8 p.m. EST/1–3 a.m. Israel
Around 9:40 p.m. EST/4:40 a.m. Israel
Monday p.m.
Tuesday a.m.
Some have placed the death toll in Rafah to over 100.
We will update this with further information.