News / Palestine

Condemnations continue in wake of Israel's Mawasi massacre

Tuesday, 10 September 2024 3:36 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 10 September 2024 3:36 PM ]

Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli attack on al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza on September 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

A United Nations envoy has condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on a tented encampment in southern Gaza near Khan Yunis that killed more than 40 displaced civilians.

“I strongly condemn today’s deadly airstrikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis where displaced people were sheltering,” Tor Wennesland, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said in a statement on Tuesday.

Separately, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs censured the international community's failure to halt Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. it said the failure enables Israel to “persist in committing further massacres” in Mawasi and other areas.

“An immediate ceasefire is the only way to protect Palestinian civilians and create a suitable environment for achieving a prisoner exchange deal.”

Photos from the bombing site reveal widespread devastation, with craters 10 to 15 meters deep, burying dozens of tents.

The area had been declared by the regime itself as a "humanitarian safe zone."

Al-Mawasi massacre: Hamas calls on intl. community to stop ‘Nazi regime’s holocaust’

Hamas denounces an Israeli attack on a tented encampment in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza Strip as “a brutal act of genocide.”

In Tehran, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kan’ani denounced the attack in the strongest terms. He said the regime has no respect whatsoever for legal and international standards as well as moral principles.

In Ankara, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry also denounced the deadly Israeli airstrike, saying the regime had “added a new crime to its list of war crimes.”

“We condemn Israel’s massacre of dozens of Palestinians in an attack on the tents of civilians in the so-called ‘humanitarian zone’ in Khan Younis,” the Turkish ministry said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already accused Israel of genocide and censured the Western camp for backing the regime.

Saudi Arabia, for its part, called on the international community to end Israel's “continuous violations of international law.”