A further 18 people have been killed in fresh Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a spokesman for the territory’s Hamas-run health authority said on Tuesday. The victims reportedly died overnight. The information could not be independently verified. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that troops were still being deployed around Rafah. Soldiers carried out “precise operations” near the border to Egypt on the basis of intelligence information about terrorist targets, the IDF stated. “The troops are fighting battles with terrorists and identifying tunnel entrances, we…