Smoke rises over the Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on 8 July 2024 in Southern Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
- A strike on Al-Mawasi displacement camp in Gaza killed at
least 20 people and injured over 90 others. - The Gaza health ministry condemned the attack as a
“brutal massacre.” - Israeli military operations continued in central Gaza,
including artillery fire and drone strikes.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said a strike on a
displacement camp in the south of the Palestinian territory killed at least 20
people Saturday.
More than 90 others were injured in the strike on Al-Mawasi
camp, the ministry said, condemning a “brutal massacre.”
It came as the Israeli military pursued attacks in central
Gaza with artillery fire and drone strikes heard by an AFP correspondent, while
Palestinian medics said one bombing killed a father and his three daughters.
Palestine Red Crescent medics said the strike on a home in
Deir al-Balah city killed Rital al-Raey, five, Mai, eight, Leila, nine and
their 40-year-old father Mohammed al-Raey.
Their bodies were taken to the city’s Al-Aqsa hospital, the
medical workers said.
AFPTV images showed ambulances arriving at the hospital with
wounded. One man carried the apparently lifeless body of a child, whom he
placed on the floor beside others.
An AFP correspondent in the Palestinian territory, under
Israeli military retaliation since the 7 October attack by Hamas militants on
Israel, reported artillery shelling in southeast Gaza City and the al-Rimal
district in the city centre.
The correspondent reported drone strikes at Tal al-Hawa in
the southwest of Gaza’s main city.
The Civil Defence agency in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that
Israeli forces had withdrawn from Tal al-Hawa and other districts, after days
of fighting. It said at least 60 bodies had been found in Tal al-Hawa and a
neighbouring area after the withdrawal.
On Thursday, the agency said 60 bodies had been found in
nearby Shujaiya after Israel ended an operation there. Israel’s military said
it had killed 150 militants in Shujaiya during a two-week operation against
Hamas.
On Saturday, the army said operations were continuing in
Gaza City as well as “targeted, intelligence-based” missions in Rafah
in the south of the Gaza Strip.
It said “numerous” tunnels had been destroyed in
the Rafah area, and “multiple” Hamas militants killed.
Also in Rafah, the military said it struck a paraglider
storage facility used by fighters in the unprecedented 7 October attack during
which some militants used the aircraft.
The 7 October Hamas attack resulted in 1 195 deaths, mostly
civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The militants
also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 the military
says are dead.
Israel’s military reprisal has killed at least 38 345 people
in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data from Gaza’s health ministry.
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