Mothers, children among those who died as Israeli soldiers attacked civilians living in the so-called humanitarian shelters.
At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on makeshift tents that displaced them. public safety zone in southern Gaza, local doctors and media organizations.
Thursday's attack in the al-Mawasi neighborhood – which the Israeli army declared a “safe zone” at the start of its war in Gaza – is said to have killed three children and two women among the 11 dead.
A video after the attack showed people searching for survivors among burning tents, scattered debris, and washing lines where residents of the refugee camp hung clothes to dry.
Reuters news agency reported that 15 people were also injured in the attack, although their condition was not immediately known.
The Israeli military has not commented on its latest attacks on the humanitarian area, which have been continuously targeted by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery, including the most recent attack on December 22, which killed eight people, including two children.
A few days earlier, Israeli tanks had reached al-Mawasi from the southern city of Rafah, forcing many families to flee north for fear of an attack.
At least 20 people were killed and others injured when Israeli rockets hit tents in al-Mawasi on December 3, which the Israeli army said was targeting a senior Hamas official.
On New Year's DayIsrael's offensive across Gaza has killed at least 26 people including four children and a woman is said to be among the dead. Ten people are also missing among the rubble of the houses that were destroyed in the attack.
Fifteen people, said to be civilians, were killed in a single attack on a house where refugees were hiding in Jabalia in northern Gaza, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said.
The Israeli army did not warn of the al-Mawasi attack early Thursday morning but had already ordered all residents north of the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza to flee the three areas they said were the targets of the attack.
The warning to flee from Jabalia to Gaza City was described as a “pre-emptive threat” by Israel's Arab army spokesman, Avichay Adraee.
“Once again, terrorist organizations are launching rockets in your area, which has been warned several times in the past,” he said in a social media post.
Even many areas in northern Gaza, including Jabalia, are suffering almost three months of siege by the Israeli armyTwo U.S. military intelligence officials said this week that Palestinian fighters had launched a joint Israeli military operation in Jabalia, which was larger than other Palestinian military operations across Gaza in recent months.
The death toll from the first two days of 2025 adds to the 45,553 Palestinians, at least, who have been killed in the Israeli attack on Gaza since it launched a punitive war in the region after the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. in the south of Israel.