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At least 40 killed, 60 injured in Israeli attack on tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza

News On Time Desk 10 September 2024

Gaza: At least 40 people were killed and 60 were wounded in an Israeli attack on a tent encampment in southern Gaza, civil emergency authorities in the enclave have confirmed. The encampment was meant for displaced Palestinians. Gaza’s Civil Defence said that at least 20 tents in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis were hit in the attack carried out early Tuesday morning, September 10.

Al-Mawasi has for long seen Palestinians sleeping in tents after the coastal area was designated a “safe zone” by the Israeli army during its ground invasions of Khan Younis and Rafah. Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing sources, that rescuers found craters of up to 9 metres (30 ft) deep at the tent camp while searching for survivors.

Witnesses said they saw fires burning and Israeli reconnaissance planes circled overhead. According to a spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence, it can be said after the initial assessment of the scene that this attack was “one of the most heinous massacres in this frenzied war.”