GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 340 on Tuesday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.
Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and shelter centers and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours.
Earlier Tuesday, Gaza’s civil defense agency said that an Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, the south of the Gaza Strip, killed 40 people and wounded 60 others.
The strike hit Al-Mawasi which was designated a safe zone by the Israeli army early in the war, with tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians seeking refuge there.
Gaza civil defense spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, said early Tuesday that “40 martyrs and 60 injured were recovered and transferred” to nearby hospitals following the overnight strike.
“Our crews are still working to recover dozens of missing people as a result of targeting the displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis,” he added.
Basal pointed out that people sheltering in the camp had not been warned of the strike, adding a shortage of tools and equipment was hindering rescue operations.
“More than 20 to 40 tents were completely damaged,” he said, adding the strike left behind “three deep craters.”
“There are entire families who disappeared under the sand in the Al-Mawasi Khan Yunis massacre,” he added.
