The Palestinian civil defense reported on Sunday, May 11, eight dead, including four young children, in an Israeli air strike in tents of people displaced in Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli combat aircraft have attacked three tents at night, who house dozens of displaced people, killing “eight people, including four children from two to five and two women, a civil defense spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Bassal said Bassal to the AFP.
The Israeli army, who resumed his offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip on March 18 after a two -month truce, has not communicated on this issue for the moment.
More than 52,000 dead in Gaza
The images filmed by the AFP show rescuers, in the dark, evacuating by ambulance of the bodies, one in a white plastic bag in the other in a blanket, as well as an injured baby.
According to Mahmoud Bassal, the Israeli army has also destroyed in the explosive five houses in the east of the city of Gaza and carried out artillery fire in the town of Abassa, east of Khan Younès, without being reported.
The War in Gaza was launched by the attack perpetrated on October 7, 2023 by Hamas in southern Israel, which led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
Israeli reprisals have left at least 52,810 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Hamas, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
