According to Hamas, more than 30 people are killed in an Israeli bomb attack on a refugee camp in Gaza, most of them women and children
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, which has de facto ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, has stated that the Israeli army bombed the Al Maghazi refugee camp in the Palestinian enclave (it is located in the center of the territory) this evening Caused 30 deaths, most of them children and women. Currently, Israel Defense Forces have not claimed responsibility for the attack, but a military spokesman said they were investigating whether they were operating in the area at the time of the attack.
The Palestinian agency WAFA has increased the death toll to at least 51. The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry also denounced the bombing, which it described as a “massacre” on its official X account (formerly Twitter), saying dozens of people died and dozens were injured. In the message on this social network, the ministry published a video in which several health workers can be seen in a room with several injured and seemingly lifeless bodies, including children.
Hamas, an organization classified as terrorist by the EU and US, said the attack destroyed several houses in the refugee camp. Mohammed Alaloul, 37, a journalist with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, told France Presse that his house next to the attack partially collapsed, killing his brother and sons Ahmed, 13, and Qais, 4.
Maghazi is a refugee camp established in 1949 in Deir al-Balah governorate in the central Gaza Strip with a population of about 23,981 people, according to UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
On Saturday, the Palestinian militia also said that more than a dozen people were killed and more than 50 injured in another Israeli bombing at a United Nations-run school in Jabalia, Gaza’s largest refugee camp. The UN confirmed the attack and said there were two impacts: one in the schoolyard where families were camping and another in the building where women were baking bread.