“Our children are in pieces, they are in pieces…”
from thefreeonline on 13th July 2024 by Al Jazeera Al Mayadeen etc. (on telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)
Over 70 murdered and more than 100 Palestinian casualties in a new Israeli massacre in Safe Zone today
Horrific scenes are emerging from Khan Younis in Gaza after Israeli warplanes committed a gruesome massacre by bombing tents that sheltered displaced Palestinians.
The attack by Israeli warplanes targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians and a water distillation unit in an area that a Gaza civil defence spokesperson told Al Jazeera was designated a “safe zone” by the Israeli military.
After the Israeli occupation retracts its wild claims of killing Resistance leaders including Commander Muhammad al-Deif in the horrific al-Mawasi massacre in the Khan Younis area. Palestinian sources unanimously claim Al-Deif is alive and well. (see details below)
Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October.
“The al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Younis has been committed against an area that is crowded with more than 80,000 displaced people. This is an obvious and clear confirmation from the Zionist government that it will continuing its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, through repeatedly and systematically targeting the defenceless displaced civilians in tents, shelters and residential neighbourhoods,” Hamas said in a statement.
More than 70 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds are wounded in Israeli military strikes on al-Mawasi, located west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Saturday put the death toll at 71 people and said 289 others were injured, including some critically wounded.
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Images from the scene showed Palestinians trying to rescue people from under the rubble, with children and paramedics among the wounded.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said this was “a new massacre committed by the Israeli military”, adding that the area was hit by “five bombs and five missiles”.
“The scenes that are coming from the area that was targeted are incredibly bloody and devastating,” he said. The victims were taken to the Nasser and Kuwaiti hospitals.
An official at Nasser Hospital told Al Jazeera that medical teams did not have the capacity to receive any more wounded patients, while civil defence teams continued to work at the site of the attack.
The Israeli military claimed in a statement that it acted based on “precise intelligence” to hit an area where “two senior Hamas terrorists” and additional fighters hid among civilians. It described the location of the strike as “an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings, and sheds”
Literally families were killed in today’s massacre in Al-Mawasi Khan Yunis. https://x.com/WarWatchs/status/1812088093995835588
Hamas said this was not the first time the Israeli military has made such claims that were later proven false.
Source to Al Mayadeen: Commander Muhammad al-Deif is alive, well
After the Israeli occupation’s claims of targeting Resistance leaders in the al-Mawasi in the Khan Younis area, the occupation partially retracts its narrative.
The Israeli occupation has begun to backtrack on claims of assassinating the general commander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif, after “near confirmation about this in the past hours,” according to Israeli media citing a political source.
This comes after a reliable source had previously confirmed to Al Mayadeen that Commander Muhammad al-Deif is well, stressing that the Israeli allegations about his injury are baseless.
In the same context, the Hamas movement confirmed that the Israeli occupation’s claims about targeting leaders are false, noting that this is not the first time the occupation has claimed to target Palestinian leaders, only for it to be proven false later.
Israel conducts deadly airstrike targeting Hamas’ top military leader Muhammad al-DeifToday… The strike took place around noon local time on Saturday in the al-Mawasi humanitarian area in Khan Younis, where displaced Palestinian civilians had been urged to seek shelter.But Resistance groups deny he was injured.
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