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“Entire families have been swallowed under mountains of sand” in an Israeli attack on Gaza with 40 dead in a humanitarian zone

He Israeli Army attacked a tent camp designated as a “humanitarian zone” near the city in the early hours of Tuesday. Khan Yunis, in southern Gazaleaving at least 40 dead and more than 60 wounded, according to reports from officials in the Hamas-controlled Strip reported by local media.

A spokesman for Hamas’ civil defense unit was quoted by the Shehab news agency, which is linked to the Islamist group, as saying that “Entire families were swallowed under mountains of sand in the attack,” which left huge holes in the ground, although rescuers lack the equipment to dig them out. Meanwhile, Israel justified the attack with fighter planes by claiming the presence of Hamas members in the area, a version that the Islamist group denied through its official channels.

“The occupation’s accusations about the presence of resistance fighters are a blatant lie,” Hamas said in a statement posted on Telegram. This is not the first time that Israel has attacked the “humanitarian zone” located off the coast in southern Gaza. Last July, it carried out one of its most violent bombardments against this space, killing 90 people off the beaches of Mawasi in an attempt to end the conflict. Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’s armed wing.

The military has designated a “humanitarian zone” covering Mawasi and Khan Yunis in southern Gaza and Deir al-Balah in the centre, but has been reducing its perimeter over the months on the grounds that militants are using it to attack troops.

Ninety percent of Gaza’s population – more than two million people – have been displaced by the war, and the vast majority are crammed into the swarm of tents in the “humanitarian zone”, with poor humanitarian conditions marked by shortages of water or electricity. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “more than a million people did not receive any food rations in August in southern and central Gaza” due to the reduced flow of humanitarian aid trucks entering the enclave.

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