Health Ministry: At least 90 dead in strike at Israeli camp

GAZA STRIP

At least 90 Palestinians were killed and 300 others injured in an Israeli attack on refugee camps in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the enclave’s health ministry said.

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A statement said that “the death toll from the occupation’s brutal massacre of citizens and displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of ​​Khan Younis has reached 90 martyrs and 300 injured, including serious cases that medical teams are still dealing with.”

It was previously reported that the bodies of the victims and injured in the attack had arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis after Israeli forces bombed the Al-Mawasi area.

The government media office in the Gaza Strip said the Israeli army had committed a “serious massacre” in the Al-Mawasi area, which it classified as a “security zone”.

A statement said that “the occupying army committed a major massacre by bombing refugee camps in the Al-Mawasi area of ​​Khan Younis… (among the victims) were individuals and civil defense officers, according to preliminary figures.”

Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army fired five heavy rockets at the Al-Mawasi area, which was declared a security zone by the Israeli forces.

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Israel has ignored a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and is facing international criticism for its ongoing brutal offensive on Gaza since the Hamas attack on October 7.

Since then, more than 38,300 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 88,300 injured, according to local health authorities.

More than nine months after the start of Israel’s war, large parts of the Gaza Strip lie in ruins and are plagued by a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

​​​​​​​Israel is accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice. In its latest ruling, Israel was ordered to immediately cease its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before the May 6 invasion.