At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on makeshift tents for displaced people in a designated humanitarian safe zone in southern Gaza, according to local medical and media reports. are
Three children and two women were reported killed in an early-morning attack on Thursday in the al-Mawasi area – which Israel’s military declared a “safe zone” at the start of its war on Gaza – among 11 people. is
A video clip from the aftermath of the attack shows people searching for survivors amid burning tents, scattered debris and washing lines where clothes were hung to dry by residents of a camp for the homeless.
According to the report of the Reuters news agency, 15 people have also been injured in this attack, but there are no details about their condition.
Israel’s military has not commented on its latest attack on the humanitarian zone, which has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery, including the latest attack on December 22, which Eight people including two children were killed.
A few days earlier, Israeli tanks advanced from the southern city of Rafah on al-Mawasi, forcing dozens of families to flee northward for fear of an impending attack.
At least 20 people were killed and others injured in an Israeli missile attack on tents in al-Mawasi on December 3, which the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas official.
On New Year’s Day, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 26 people, including four children and a woman. Ten people are also missing in the rubble of the buildings destroyed in the attack.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said a single attack on a house in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killed 15 people, all of them civilians.
Israeli forces issued no warning for the attack on al-Mawasi on Thursday morning, but earlier issued an order to all residents of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee three areas it said had been designated for attack. were done.