Israel has bombed Gaza againOn this occasion, five missiles were launched at a displaced persons camp in Al Mawasi, west of the city of Khan Yunis and initially described by the Israeli Army as a “safe zone” for displaced people from the enclave. A “safe zone” attacked, according to them, to finish off the military leader of Hamas, Mohamed Deif, of whom it is not yet known if he died in the attack, but it is known that71 lives have been lost and nearly 300 injured in this Israeli siege.

According to ‘Al Jazeera’, The Israeli army has launched five bombs and five missiles in search of Deif and Rafah Salamehthe commander of the Khan Yunis brigade, bypassing the “safe zone” of the Al Mawasi camp. After the attack, Gazans ran in all directions while aid workers rescued everyone they could, including their own workers.

And while they were treating the wounded, there was more shelling. “We were sitting in the tent, nothing was happening, Suddenly a missile fell on us. The children were torn to pieces.“…,” said a survivor of the attack. The missiles have left a trail in the ground, with a huge crater forming in this refugee camp.

The authorities in Gaza, under the control of the Islamist movement Hamas, have reported that at least 71 people have been killed and 289 wounded in this Israeli bombardment launched against the commander of the military wing of Hamas and the commander of the Khan Yunis brigade, Neither of them among the confirmed casualties.

While the Israeli security forces are still awaiting the outcome of the operation, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Yusef Abu al Rish, has denounced this bombardment as “a massacre.”

The Gaza Civil Defence has confirmed that the dead include the deputy director of the organisation’s Fire and Rescue Department, Muhamad Hamad, and that another eight members of these teams have been injured after, it claims, the Israeli army launched direct attacks against the rescue teams that were going to help the victims of the initial bombardment.