Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25 and wound 50, Gaza health officials said

(22 Jun 2024)
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++PLEASE NOTE: EDIT INCLUDES FOOTAGE OF VICTIMS IN BODY BAGS++

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 21 June 2024
1. Various of people mourning next to bodies in body bags
2. People grieving and stroking face of victim
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hasan al Najjar, lost two sons:
“We had a strike. My two sons left after they heard the women and children screaming. They went to save the women and that’s when they struck the second missile, and my sons were martyred. They struck the place twice.”
4. Various of women and children grieving
5. People grieving next to a body in a body bag
6. People consoling each other
7. People carrying bodies in body bags
STORYLINE:
Relatives of people killed on Friday when Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip collected their remains from a hospital in Khan Younis.

At least 25 people were killed and another 50 wounded in the shelling outside Rafah, according to the territory's health officials and emergency workers.

According to a spokesperson for Civil Defense first responders in Rafah, witnesses told rescue workers about Friday's shelling at two locations in a coastal area that has become filled with makeshift tents.

Witnesses whose relatives died in one of the bombardments near a Red Cross field hospital told The Associated Press that Israeli forces fired a second volley that killed people who came out of their tents.

The locations provided by the Civil Defense and the Red Cross hospital appear to be just outside an Israeli-designated safe zone on the Mediterranean coast, known as Muwasi.

The Israeli military said the episode was under review but that there was "no indication" that a strike had been carried out by the defence forces inside the safe zone.

It did not offer details on the episode or say what the intended targets might have been.

Israel has previously bombed locations in the vicinity of the “humanitarian zone” in Muwasi, a rural area on the Mediterranean coast that has filled with sprawling tent camps in recent months.

The strikes came as Israel pushed ahead with its military operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from fighting elsewhere in Gaza.

And they took place 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.

AP video by Mariam Daggah
Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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