The Israeli navy launched assaults throughout the Gaza Strip after an assault on a tent camp in al-Mawasi within the south killed not less than 25 individuals, based on Palestinian officers.
Israeli assaults killed 101 Palestinians and wounded 169 within the final 24 hours, Gaza’s Ministry of Well being mentioned on Saturday, with many individuals underneath the rubble and ambulances and civil defence crews unable to achieve them.
That is the very best day by day demise toll recorded within the enclave by the ministry since June 8, when Israeli forces killed not less than 274 Palestinians to free 4 Israeli captives within the Nuseirat refugee camp.
On Friday, an Israeli assault close to the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross (ICRC) base on the al-Mawasi camp – designated by Israel as a protected zone – that Palestinian officers say killed not less than 25 individuals and wounded 50 others, concerned two strikes, The Related Press information company reported.
Witnesses whose kinfolk died in one of many bombardments informed AP how Israeli forces fired a second volley that killed individuals who got here out of their tents.
“We had been in our tent, they usually hit with a ‘sound bomb’ close to the Purple Cross tents, after which my husband got here out on the first sound,” Mona Ashour, whose husband was killed within the assault, informed AP outdoors Nasser Hospital in close by Khan Younis.
“Then they hit with the second, which was somewhat nearer to the doorway of the Purple Cross,” she mentioned.
The ICRC condemned the assault on the camp and mentioned the situation of its humanitarian workplace, which was struck, was recognized to fighters. It reported that 22 individuals had died and 45 had been wounded.
The ICRC workplace in Gaza, which is surrounded by a whole bunch of displaced civilians residing in tents, was broken by close by shelling in Gaza.
Firing so dangerously near humanitarian buildings places the lives of civilians and humanitarians in danger. https://t.co/SVrwaQ9cNV
— ICRC (@ICRC) June 21, 2024
“Firing so dangerously near humanitarian buildings, of whose areas the events to the battle are conscious and that are clearly marked with Purple Cross emblems, places the lives of civilians and Purple Cross employees in danger,” it mentioned in a press release.
“The strike broken the construction of the ICRC workplace, which is surrounded by a whole bunch of displaced civilians residing in tents, together with lots of our Palestinian colleagues.”
A survivor of the assault informed Al Jazeera that fireplace was “consuming” them “from each path”.
“We had simply eaten and had been about to sleep and take some relaxation, and the subsequent we knew was the sound of resounding explosions destroying our locations. We discover ourselves alone not figuring out what to do. We nonetheless can’t course of what occurred,” the survivor mentioned.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum famous that within the final 24 hours because the al-Mawasi assault, there was a rise in Israeli assaults.
“Witnesses mentioned Israeli tanks carried out a sudden and sudden incursion in al-Mawasi, launching quite a few artillery shells in direction of the evacuation centres and makeshift tents,” he mentioned on Saturday.
“Your complete space of al-Mawasi is an evacuation centre. It’s a really tiny strip of land the place greater than 100,000 Palestinians have been taking refuge. It’s the place the place discipline hospitals have been established and it’s a centre for humanitarian organisations,” he added.
The Israeli navy has claimed there may be “no indication” that it was accountable for Friday’s camp assault, however mentioned it was underneath evaluate. Earlier, the navy mentioned its forces had been conducting “exact, intelligence-based” actions within the Rafah space.
Abu Azzoum additionally reported that the Israeli navy focused a residential neighbourhood within the Shati refugee camp on the western aspect of Gaza, the place displaced Palestinians from the north of the territory had been informed to hunt refuge.
In keeping with the Well being Ministry on Saturday, greater than 37,500 individuals have been killed and 85,900 wounded in Israel’s struggle on Gaza since October 7. The revised demise toll in Israel from the Hamas-led assaults stands at 1,139, with dozens of individuals nonetheless held captive in Gaza.
