40 killed after Israel attacks displaced Gazans with US-provided 2,000-pound bombs
The Israeli regime has attacked displaced Palestinians in the southern part of the Gaza Strip with US-provided 2,000-pound bombs, killing at least 40 civilians, mostly women and children.
As many as 60 others were injured in the attack that targeted an area previously declared by the Israeli military as a “humanitarian zone” at the al-Mawasi refugee camp in the city of Khan Younis on Tuesday.
The military alleged that it had struck members of the Hamas resistance movement, who were “operating a command and control center” inside the targeted area, a claim that was rejected by the group as a “blatant lie.”
“The resistance has repeatedly confirmed the absence of any of its members among civilian gatherings or the use of such areas for military purposes,” Hamas said.
The bloodletting took place as part of the regime’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7 in response to a retaliatory operation staged by the territory’s resistance groups.
So far, close to 41,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 94,800 others wounded in the brutal military onslaught.
The Tuesday massacre came after the refugee camp witnessed an influx of homeless Palestinians, who had fled there from the death and destruction spree caused by the war elsewhere across the coastal sliver. Between 30,000 and 34,000 people were living upon each square kilometer of the camp at the time of the attack, the United Nations estimates show.
The weapons deployed during the massacre have been identified as American-made MK-84 bombs, which carry 900 pounds of explosives.
The payload can create a crater about 15 meters wide and over 10 meters deep, besides being capable of causing deadly damage around it within a radius of approximately 73 meters.
This is not the first time when the regime deploys the ammunition against civilian targets during the war.
More than 70 Palestinians were killed after it struck the refugee camp with the same bombs in July.
As part of its unbridled military support for the regime, the United States has armed it with as many as 14,000 of the bombs since the onset of the war.
Hamas also called the US “complicit” in such massacres that “are being deliberately carried out without regard for international law, humanitarian law, or resolutions calling for an end to the aggression.”
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