Israeli airstrikes have killed at least five people in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to Palestinan hospital officials. The attacks were launched as troops prepare in the next few days to launch a ground-offensive on the last remaining refuge for more than a million Gazans. In central Gaza, four people were killed in Israeli tank shelling after Hamas and Islamic Jihad rocket teams launched missiles into Israeli communities. Battles are still raging in the strip, the war now in its