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IDF confirms overnight strike on Rafah residential tower it says housed ‘Hamas military asset’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Palestinians gather in front of a residential building hit in an overnight Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 9, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)
The IDF confirms that it struck one of the largest residential towers in southern Gaza’s Rafah overnight, saying it housed a “Hamas military asset.”
“Acts of terror against our forces and the civilian home front were planned from this asset,” the IDF says in response to a query on the matter.
According to a military source, the building was used by Hamas’s so-called emergency committee.
The IDF says it warned residents of the 12-floor tower ahead of the strike, and they all evacuated in time. There were no reports of injuries.
