Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people, hospital says

By WAFAA SHURAFA

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian wellness authoritative said Wednesday that astatine slightest 21 radical were killed by an Israeli onslaught connected a campy lodging displaced radical successful Gaza.

Atif Al-Hout, the manager of Nasser Hospital successful the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis said 28 radical were wounded.

The Israeli subject said its craft struck elder Hamas fighters “involved successful violent activities” successful the area. The subject said that the onslaught had acceptable disconnected secondary explosions, indicating explosives contiguous successful the country were acceptable off. It was not imaginable to independently corroborate the Israeli claims, and the onslaught could besides person ignited fuel, cooking state canisters oregon different materials successful the camp.

Hamas has been designated arsenic a violent enactment by the United States, Canada and the European Union.

The onslaught successful the Muwasi area, a sprawling coastal campy lodging hundreds of thousands of displaced people, adjacent the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis, came aft Israeli forces struck targets successful different areas of the Palestinian enclave. Earlier strikes connected cardinal Gaza killed 8 people, including 4 children.

Israel’s warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas-led terrorists attacked confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting astir 250 people. Some 100 hostages are inactive wrong Gaza, astatine slightest a 3rd of whom are believed to beryllium dead.

Israel’s violative has killed implicit 44,500 Palestinians successful Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not accidental however galore were combatants. The Israeli subject says it has killed implicit 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence.

Israel says it tries to debar harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths due to the fact that the fighters often run successful residential areas and are known to presumption tunnels, rocket launchers and different infrastructure adjacent homes, schools and mosques.