More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
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Gaza's civil protection agency said Tuesday morning that 40 people were killed and 60 others wounded in an attack on the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in the Palestinian territory's main southern city of Khan Yunis. The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas command center in the area.
Mohammed Al-Mughair, a civil defence official, told AFP that “40 martyrs and 60 wounded have been recovered and transferred” to nearby hospitals after the attack.
“Our teams are still working to recover 15 missing people as they attacked the tents of displaced people in Mawasi, Khan Yunis,” Mughair added.
Civil defense sources said separately that the attack had left large craters.
“Whole families disappeared during the Mawasi Khan Yunis massacre, under the sand, in deep holes,” said civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal.
The Israeli military said in a statement Tuesday morning that its aircraft had “attacked key Hamas terrorists operating from a command and control center in the humanitarian area in Khan Yunis.”
“The terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to systematically misuse civilian and humanitarian infrastructure, including the designated humanitarian area, to carry out terrorist activities against the State of Israel and IDF forces,” the report said.
Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday that claims that its fighters were present at the scene of the attack were “a blatant lie.”
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