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Israeli airstrike on a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in the south Gaza killed at least 11 people on Wednesday night.
At least 15 people were also wounded in the attack on Al Mawasi, which Israeli forces have designated a “humanitarian area” in the west Khan Younissaid the medics.
The Shehab news agency and the Palestinian Information Center confirmed that at least 11 people were killed in the attack. Among the victims were women and children.
The Al Mawasi tent camp stretches 12 km along the coast, from the western part of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza to Khan Younis and Rafah in the south. Covering about 3 percent of Gaza’s land area, the area consists primarily of sand hills. Before the Israeli war in Gaza began, it had about 9,000 inhabitants, according to Al Jazeera.
In another Israeli attack on Shejaiya, a suburb of Gaza City, at least eight Palestinians were killed, according to emergency services. Martyrs Al Aqsa Hospital announced that a woman and a child were among those killed in the attack.
The Israeli military claimed it had asked people in the area to evacuate before the attack.
The UN claims that there are no longer any “safe enclaves” in Gaza and that frequent Israeli evacuation orders are worsening the humanitarian situation.
More than 1,500 tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza were flooded after heavy rain, worsening their situation. At least six infants and another person froze to death over the past week when temperatures dropped below 10 degrees Celsius at night, the health ministry said.
IsraelThe war in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry, and displaced nearly 90 percent of the besieged territory’s 2.3 million residents. Humanitarian agencies estimate that 1.6 million Gazans live in makeshift shelters, and nearly half a million in flood-prone areas.
Most children eat only one meal a day, further reducing their ability to withstand the cold.
Gaza’s population has shrunk by 6 percent since Israel launched a war on the territory 15 months ago, with 100,000 people fleeing and more than 55,000 presumed dead, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said.
The population now stands at 2.1 million, almost half of whom are under 18, the bureau added. He accused Israel of “brutal aggression against Gaza that targets all kinds of life there, people, buildings and vital infrastructure. Whole families were deleted from the register. There are catastrophic human and material losses.”
Israel’s foreign ministry dismissed the figures as “fabricated and manipulated”.
Additional agency reporting.