Israeli troops exchange fire with Egyptian soldiers near Rafah, killing one: IDF says incident 'under investigation'

Israeli forces earlier today exchanged gunfire with Egyptian troops along their shared border that resulted in the death of at least one Egyptian soldier. Smoke rises from the region following the Israeli attacks on various areas in Rafah city, near the Egyptian border, Gaza on May 25, 2024 Fire rages following an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced Palestinians Palestinians observe the destruction caused by the attacks of Israeli army on tents of displaced Palestinians Gaza's civil defence force said this morning that the death toll from the punishing overnight strikes on Rafah rose to 40 before later upping that total again to 45. Palestinian health workers said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 35 people in the area Israel's army confirmed Sunday's strike and claimed it hit a Hamas installation and killed two senior Hamas militants Hamas's armed wing said Sunday that it targeted Tel Aviv 'with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians'. The October 7 attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli army raid on a camp at an area designated for displaced people in Rafah Hamas militants took 252 hostages, 121 of whom remain in Gaza, including 37 the army says are dead, from Israel He has long rejected Hamas's demand for a permanent end to the conflict triggered by the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack. Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp area housing internally displaced people in Rafah Around 80 per cent of Gaza's 2.3 million people have fled their homes As the war grinds on, the families of hostages still held by militants have piled pressure on Netanyahu to secure a deal to free them Mustafa, whose government is based in the occupied West Bank, said the 'first priority' was to support the people in Gaza, especially through a ceasefire, and then 'rebuilding the institutions of the Palestinian Authority' in the territory after Hamas seized it from the PA in 2007.