Israel attacks ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza, killing at least 11 people and wounding 15 others Israeli-Palestinian Conflict News

Women and children are among the dead as the Israeli army again attacks civilians taking shelter in the so-called humanitarian safe zone.

At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on temporary tents housing displaced people in Designated humanitarian safe zone In the southern Gaza Strip, local medics and news organizations reported.

The pre-dawn attack on Thursday in the Al-Mawasi area – declared a “safe zone” by the Israeli army early in its war on Gaza – is reported to have killed three children and two women among the 11 who died.

A video clip from the aftermath of the attack showed people searching for survivors among burning tents, scattered debris and clotheslines where residents of the displacement camp hung clothes to dry.

Reuters reported that 15 people were also injured in the attack, although no details were available about their condition.

The Israeli military has not commented on its recent attack on the humanitarian zone, which has been relentlessly targeted by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery, including the most recent attack on December 22, which killed eight people, including two children.

Days earlier, Israeli tanks advanced on Al-Mawasi from the southern city of Rafah, forcing dozens of families to flee north for fear of an imminent attack.

At least 20 people were killed and others injured in an Israeli missile attack on tents in Al-Mawasi on December 3, in what the Israeli military said was the targeting of a Hamas official.

On New Year’s DayIsraeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have reportedly killed at least 26 people, including four children and a woman. Ten people were also lost among the rubble of buildings destroyed in the attack.

A spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said that 15 people, all civilians, were killed in a single raid on a house where displaced people had taken refuge in Jabalia, north of Gaza.

Israeli forces did not issue any warning about the attack on Al-Mawasi early Thursday morning, but they had earlier issued orders for all residents of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip to flee from three areas they said were designated for the attack.

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, described the warning to residents to flee from Jabalia to Gaza City as “numbing before the attack.”

He said in a post on social media: “Once again, terrorist organizations are launching missiles from your area, something that has been warned about several times in the past.”

< p>Although large parts of northern Gaza, including Jabalia, are suffering approx Three months of siege imposed by Israeli forcesTwo US-based defense think tanks said this week that Palestinian fighters launched a coordinated “multi-wave” attack on Israeli forces in Jabalia – an attack that was larger than most other Palestinian military operations across Gaza in recent months.

The death toll in the first two days of 2025 adds to the at least 45,553 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since it launched a punitive war on the Strip following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Gaza. Southern Israel.