Trading Blows, Egypt's Tanks on Gaza Border: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Rages On

Egypt has announced the opening of the Rafah border crossing in order to allow wounded Palestinians, some foreigners and dual nationals to leave the conflict zone, AFP reported on Wednesday.

A source familiar with the matter told Sputnik that ambulances with the wounded from the Gaza Strip entered the territory of Egypt through the checkpoint.

On Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht confirmed the strike on the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip that left at least 400 people dead and injured. Those killed, according to the spokesman, he referred to as a "tragedy of war". Later, the IDF conducted a second strike on the camp, causing even more deaths, a Palestinian news agency reported.

So far, the death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza has exceeded 8,500, among them are 3,542 children and 2,187 women, the enclave's health ministry said earlier. Israel has lost over 1,400 people, with at least 240 still remaining as hostages, Tel Aviv said.

Take a look at Sputnik Africa's photo gallery below to see new images of the recent events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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A distraught Palestinian man holding a dead child who was found under the rubble of a demolished building following Israeli airstrikes on the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

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Egyptian tanks are deployed near Egypt's northern Rafah border crossing with Gaza on October 31, 2023, amid the raging battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

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Two women peer out of a destroyed building's window in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, looking at the destructive aftermath of Israel's bombardment, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

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An Israeli drone and a jet fighter fly over the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

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This picture, from Oct. 31, 2023, was from a position near Sderot, along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. It shows an Israeli tank on the move amidst the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.

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Volunteers boldly wave Palestinian flags and signs at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

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This picture taken from a position near Sderot along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, shows flares dropped by Israeli forces above the Palestinian enclave amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

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Israeli firefighters inspect the damage to vehicles and a residential building after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

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Crowds stand waiting as civil defense workers tirelessly search for victims and survivors in the rubble of a building struck by Israel's bombardment in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 31, 2023.

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This picture from Oct. 31. 2023, taken during an Israeli military-led media tour, shows soldiers standing outside a ransacked house in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of several Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip that fell victim to the infamous Oct. 7 ambush by the Hamas Palestinian militant group.

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This picture, shows an eerie image from a media tour organized by the Israeli authorities, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023: a house in the Nir Oz kibbutz marked by a bloodstained handprint. Tragically, in the ongoing violence since October 7, 2023, thousands of lives have been lost, encompassing both Palestinians and Israelis.