Scores of Palestinians killed, wounded in Israeli attack on Khan Younis refugee camp

More than 70 people have been killed and nearly 300 others wounded by Israeli air strikes on the al-Mawasi refugee camp near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

The area where the strike took place had been designated by the regime as a so-called “safe” zone.

According to witnesses, a series of airstrikes were conducted by Israel’s F16 war planes that targeted a camp for displaced Palestinians west of the city with more than nine consecutive missiles.

“This was followed by quadcopter drones opening fire on ambulances and civil defense teams as soon as they arrived,” they said.

The attacks, which took place around 10:30 a.m. in the morning, initially resulted in the killing of dozens of civilians who were subsequently transported to the Nasser Medical Complex, with over 100 others injured, some critically.

Rescue teams continue to retrieve dozens of casualties from the sites of the bombings.

Local health authorities warned that the region’s hospitals are incapable of accommodating the large number of casualties as Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure has been decimated by Israeli occupation forces.

‘A real massacre’

Suhaib Al-Hams, head of the Kuwait field hospital, called the Mawasi attack “a real massacre”.

He said there were many “severe injuries including amputations and lacerations of internal organs”.

“A real disaster is happening now amid the collapse of the healthcare system,” he added.

The massacre came on the 281st day of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

Israel’s strikes have killed at least 38,345 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from Gaza’s health ministry.