RAFAH, Gaza, May 22 (IslamOnline.net) - 57 people were killed, some 300 others wounded and about 1500 families became homeless and had to resort to schools or public squares to stay after their houses were pulled down, according to the latest statistics obtained Saturday, May 22, by IslamOnline.net of the Israeli aggression against Rafah inhabitants.

Various sources asserted the figures on top of them were the victims themselves. On the ground, in the southern Gaza Strip town and refugee camp, the scene was beyond description, to put it mildly.

Hundreds of homes were completely or partially destroyed.

The occupation has demolished 80 houses in Brazil neighborhood, according to relief agencies, while the demolition operations were still underway in Tel Sultan and al-Salam neighborhoods, indicating the figures, of both human casualties and destroyed homes, were yet to keep climbing.

Rafah inhabitants described what they termed "the massacre" perpetrated by the Israeli occupation troops as bloody and horrible, underlining that "Zionist war criminals" who killed 57, injured 300 and demolished hundreds of houses should be put to trial.

The most brutal scenes of destruction are those documented by Abu Youssef el-Naggar Hospital director, Dr. Ali Moussa, who said that "medical convoys that work in Rafah camp have found remains of several corpses of victims, whom the Israeli occupation forces targeted with Apache choppers."

"Most decapitated body parts were moved to the hospital totally figureless," he added, describing scenes Rafah residents believe "would stand witness to the Zionist crimes."

Al-Salam neighborhood inhabitants were seen searching the ruins for charred remains of the corpse of Khaled Abu Anza, 42, who was a leader of al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades in Rafah, after he had been directly targeted by an Israeli missile.

Words failed the Palestinian citizens, who gathered following the Israeli redeployment in Tel Sultan, Brazil, and al-Salam neighborhoods, to describe the brutality of the massacre.

Most reporters were amazed at the extent of destruction and the "bloody scenes" whose traces they witnessed on the ground. They did not even need the accounts of the Rafah residents.

Hundreds of homes were completely or partially destroyed

A Rafah resident, Abdullah Abu el-Enein, 50, said, "During the genocide operation by the occupation troops, they called through loud speakers for some citizens to come out. Once they did, the troops opened fire on them brutally.

"They just shot them one by one as they appeared out of their homes".

Mahmoud Abu Gazar, 25, pointed out that the occupation forces set up concentration camps to detain citizens in the adjacent military Tel Zaarab zone.

"Occupation forces called upon men between 16 and 40 to get out of their homes and gather in Kamal Edwan school but families refused to let their sons out until their houses were brutally and coarsely attacked and we were led handcuffed and blindfolded to the military Tel Zaarab field. There, we were interrogated about resistance and martyrs, then they released some of us. Others remained under detention," Abu Gazar said.

In Brazil neighborhood, stories are more horrible and scenes of demolition of tens of houses are heartbreaking. A large number of houses has been destroyed. Missiles destroyed parts of them.

Before the morgue, families gathered to bid farewell to more than 30 bodies, as the mother of Hany Koffa, who was killed during the shelling of Belal mosque at dawn, recalled the death of his brother Amir and some of his companions at the hands of the Israeli occupation troops.

Tahani al-Baoumy, a nurse who managed to provide some of the wounded with first aid services, told IslamOnline.net: "Upon hearing the screams of the wounded, the residents managed with difficulty to sneak away and carry the wounded to my house but they all died, as their wounds were severe."

Tulb Abu Teema, 50, said that "the Israeli bulldozers operated day and night to complete the demolition operation in Brazil neighborhood to enable tanks to enter the area."

"In the following morning, we felt an earthquake. We were 16. My sons and I got out yelling in the face of the killers under the rubble and we survived a near death," he added.

Within the framework of the psychological warfare launched by Israel, the occupation troops distributed a statement among the inhabitants to the effect that "saboteurs still continue their operations."

The statement said that the occupation army will keep waging relentless war against what he signaled out as "saboteurs, their supporters and weapon smugglers" and some names were mentioned.

The statement called upon Rafah inhabitants to confront "sabotage operations" and was signed by "Israeli Defense Army leadership."