40 Killed, Over 60 Injured In Gaza After Israeli Strikes on Gaza Tent Camp

Israeli airstrikes on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians killed and wounded sixty five people in southern Gaza, the enclave’s civil emergency service said early on Tuesday, because the Israeli militia said it had targeted a Hamas command centre.

Residents and medics said a tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area, a selected humanitarian zone, became struck by as a minimum four missiles. The camp is crowded with displaced Palestinians who have fled from in other places in the territory.

The Gaza civil emergency service said as a minimum 20 tents caught on fire, and missiles led to craters as deep as nine meters (30 feet). It said the sixty five victims included women folk and young people but did now no longer provide a breakdown of deaths and injuries.

There became no immediate comment from the Gaza health ministry, which compiles casualty figures. Earlier, the Hamas-aligned Shehab News Agency said forty Palestinians were killed.

“Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It appears like a new Israeli massacre,” a Gaza civil emergency official said. The official added that teams have been struggling to seek for victims who may perhaps have been buried.

The Israeli militia said it “struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and keep an eye on centre embedded within the Humanitarian Area in Khan Younis.” “The terrorists advanced and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel,” the statement said, in terms of the Israeli Defence Forces.

Hamas, the Islamist group that controlled Gaza before the conflict, denied Israeli allegations gunmen existed in the targeted area, and rejected accusations it exploited civilian areas for militia purposes.

“This will maybe be a clear lie that aims to justify these ugly crimes. The resistance has denied several times that any of its members exist within civilian gatherings or using these places for militia purposes,” said Hamas in a statement.

Ambulances raced between the tent camp and a close-by health facility, while Israeli jets may per chance still be heard overhead, residents said. Nearly all of Gaza’s 2.Three million people have been forced from their homes as a minimum once, and some have had to flee as many as 10 times.

The war became triggered on Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages, per Israeli tallies. Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza has killed more than forty,900 Palestinians, per the enclave’s health ministry. Both warring sides each blame the opposite for a failure so some distance to arrive a ceasefire which could end the battling and see the release of hostages.

(With Inputs from Reuters)