The Israeli army attacked in the early hours of this Tuesday a tent camp designated a “humanitarian zone” near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving at least 40 dead and more than 60 injured, according to reports from Gaza officials.
The Gaza Civil Defense spoke of a “massacre” in Al Mauasi and stressed that “Entire families disappear under the sand”“Our teams do not have the necessary equipment to deal with the massacre,” he lamented, according to the Palestinian newspaper “Filastin.”
Similarly, he stressed that the army had used “high explosive missiles” in the bombing, which caused a ““mass destruction” andon the spot, full of tents used by the displaced. “The attack left three holes about ten meters deep in an area sheltering between 20 and 40 tents of displaced people,” he explained.
A spokesman for Hamas’ civil defense unit, quoted by the Shehab news agency, said that “entire families were swallowed up by mountains of sand during the attack,” which They left huge holes in the groundalthough the rescuers.
Meanwhile, Israel justified its attack with warplanes alleging the presence of Hamas members in the region, a version that the Islamist group has denied through its official channels. “The accusations of the occupation on the presence of resistance fighters are “a lie discovered”” Hamas said in a statement posted on Telegram.
This is not the first time that Israel has attacked the “humanitarian zone”
This is not the first time that Israel has attacked the “humanitarian zone” Located along the coast south of Gaza. Last July, it carried out one of its most violent bombardments against this area, killing 90 people along the beaches of Mawasi, in an attempt to finish off Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’s armed wing.
The armed forces have designated a “humanitarian zone” covering the territories of Mawasi and Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza, and Deir al Balah, in the center, even if they have reduced their scope over the months under the hypothesis that the militiamen are using it to attack the troops.
90% of Gaza’s population – more than two million people – have been displaced by the war, and the vast majority of them are crammed into a swarm of tents. from the “humanitarian zone”, with poor humanitarian conditions marked by shortages of water or electricity.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “More than a million people have not received any food rations in August in southern and central Gaza” due to the reduced flow of humanitarian aid trucks entering the enclave.
