Bodies 'Melted' in Rafah

Israeli Shells Carnage in Gaza

20,000 People per Square Kilometer in Rafah

"Bodies... charred bodies... children with no heads... bodies as if they had melted," he said.

As a result, Rafah (20,000 people per square kilometer) is almost twice as densely populated as New York City (11,300 people per square kilometer) and about five times more densely populated than Los Angeles (4,000 people per square kilometer).

Rafah is now a city of children who have nowhere safe to go in Gaza. If large-scale military operations start, not only will children be at risk, the entire civilian population will be in danger.

"Burnt bodies could be seen and a child with no head," allegedly the scenes following an Israeli air strike on a home in Rafah.

Images of burnt children and families emerging from bombed-out tents in Rafah were "shocking", said the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.