Israel strikes Gaza ‘humanitarian zone’, killing at least 11, wounding 15 Israel-Palestine conflict news
Women and children were among the dead as Israeli forces again attacked civilians sheltering in the so-called humanitarian safe zone.
At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in Israeli air strikes on makeshift tents for displaced people in the designated humanitarian safe zone in southern Gaza, local doctors and news organizations report.
The attack early Thursday in the al-Mawasi area – which the Israeli military had declared a “safe zone” in its war on Gaza – resulted in the deaths of 11 people, including three children and two women.
A video clip after the attack showed people searching for survivors amid burning tents, scattered debris and washing lines where residents of the camp for displaced people hung clothes to dry.
Reuters news agency reports that 15 people were also injured in the attack, although there were no details on their conditions.
Israel’s military did not comment on its latest attack on the humanitarian zone, which has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery, including the most recent attack on December 22, which killed eight people, including two children. They went.
A few days earlier, Israeli tanks advanced from the southern city of Rafah towards al-Mawasi, forcing dozens of families to flee north out of fear of an imminent attack.
At least 20 people were killed and others injured in an Israeli missile attack on tents in al-Mawasi on 3 December, with the Israeli military saying a Hamas official was targeted in the attack.
On New Year’s Day, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 26 people, including four children and a woman among those killed. Ten people are also missing from the debris of buildings destroyed in the attack.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said that fifteen people, all of whom were reported to be civilians, were killed in an attack on a house in Jabaliya in northern Gaza where displaced people had taken shelter.
Israeli forces gave no warning for the attack on al-Mawasi on Thursday morning, but had earlier issued orders to all residents of the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee three areas it said were vulnerable to attack. Were nominated for.
The warning to residents in Gaza City to flee from Jabaliya was described by the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adrai, as a “pre-attack warning”.
He said in a post on social media, “Once again terrorist organizations are launching rockets from your area, about which warnings have been given many times before.”
Despite large parts of northern Gaza, including Jabaliya, facing a nearly three-month siege by Israeli forces, two United States-based defense think tanks said this week that Palestinian fighters launched a coordinated, “multi- Wave attack – which was larger than other Palestinian military operations across Gaza in recent months.
The death toll in the first two days of 2025 adds to at least 45,553 Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since it began a punitive war on the territory following an attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Southern Israel.
