‘Massacres’: Women, children killed as Israel bombs Gaza’s ‘safe zone’

Al Jazeera’s analogous says fearfulness dominates successful Gaza arsenic Israeli attacks intensify, targeting the al-Mawasi ‘humanitarian harmless zone’.

Many women and young children person been reported killed successful Israel’s latest attacks connected Gaza, with astir 50 radical killed and dozens wounded successful a azygous time arsenic the wide decease toll successful the war-ravaged Palestinian territory pushes towards 46,000.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that astatine slightest 49 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks since the aboriginal hours of Tuesday morning.

The dormant included astatine slightest 5 children killed by Israeli strikes connected tents sheltering displaced radical successful al-Mawasi – a desolate coastal country successful confederate Gaza designated a “humanitarian harmless zone” by the Israeli military.

Despite hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians crammed into makeshift structure camps successful al-Mawasi, Israel’s subject has continually attacked the site, claiming, without providing evidence, that it is targeting Hamas.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said precocious connected Tuesday that Israeli forces had carried retired 3 “massacres” of Palestinian families successful the past 24 hours, successful which 31 radical were killed and 57 were wounded.

The wide decease toll from Israeli attacks connected the territory had present risen to 45,885 radical killed and much than 109,000 injured successful the 15 months since Israel’s warfare connected the enclave began, connected October 7, 2023.

Ahmed al-Farra, manager of the children’s ward astatine Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis, told the Associated Press (AP) quality bureau that 5 children were killed successful the aforesaid structure arsenic they sheltered unneurotic successful al-Mawasi.

Their bodies were among the 8 children and 5 women brought to the infirmary connected Tuesday. Israeli strikes besides deed a car and 2 residential houses successful the Khan Younis area, the infirmary said, adding that 2 of those killed successful the attacks were men, portion 2 radical killed successful the conveyance were unidentifiable.

In the hospital’s morgue, bodies laic connected stretchers oregon were stacked connected metallic shelves. A young miss successful a fuzzy pinkish sweatshirt rested with her caput successful the thigh of different dormant child. Other corpses, immoderate disfigured by Israeli explosions, were covered successful blankets, the AP reports.

Al Jazeera’s analogous successful cardinal Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum, said Israeli attacks had “ramped up” crossed Gaza implicit the past 12 hours, successful peculiar connected the al-Mawasi area.

Hardships suffered by Palestinians successful Gaza had besides been exacerbated by Israel’s continued attacks connected humanitarian assistance convoys and the hijacking by “Palestinian transgression gangs” of substance tankers, which had jeopardised the territory’s already struggling hospitals.

The European Hospital successful Khan Younis has present warned that it volition tally retired of substance wrong the adjacent 24 hours, Abu Azzoum said. Al-Aqsa Hospital, successful cardinal Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, has besides reported that it volition beryllium forced to chopped energy owed to substance shortages caused by Israel’s restrictions connected transportation of supplies to Gaza and the hijackings.

“So, the country connected the crushed is simply a spot chaotic and the ambiance is rather charged with fearfulness and anticipation of much aerial strikes looming connected the skyline too,” Abu Azzoum said.

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and the coordinator for exigency relief, said successful a connection that attempts by assistance workers to prevention lives successful Gaza were “at breaking point”.

Fletcher recounted however Israeli forces had precocious attacked a nutrient organisation constituent operated by a spouse of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), injuring 3 people. Israeli troops had besides fired 16 bullets astatine a intelligibly marked UN convoy. And Palestinian gangs had hijacked six substance tankers, leaving hardly immoderate for humanitarian operations.

“These incidents are portion of a unsafe signifier of sabotage and deliberate disruption,” Fletcher said.

“Statements by Israeli authorities vilify our assistance workers adjacent arsenic the subject attacks them. Community volunteers who travel our convoys are being targeted,” helium said.

“There is present a cognition that it is unsafe to support assistance convoys but harmless to loot them,” helium added.