Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area designated a "humanitarian safe zone" by Israel on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50.
The area lies northwest of Gaza's southern city of Rafah.
This was the latest deadly attack in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting Israel's devastating war on Gaza Israel . It comes less than a month after an Israeli bombing triggered a deadly fire that tore through a camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, drawing widespread international outrage — including from some of Israel’s closest allies — over the military’s expanding offensive into Rafah.
Witnesses whose relatives died in one of the bombardments near a Red Cross field hospital north of Rafah told The Associated Press that Israeli forces fired a second volley that killed people who came out of their tents.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the hospital was flooded with casualties, including 22 dead and 45 wounded, and condemned the firing of “high-caliber projectiles” a few meters (yards) from the facility. Hundreds of people live in tents nearby, including many of the hospital staff, the ICRC said.
