CAIRO (Reuters) -At least six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said early on Tuesday, with the Israeli military saying it targeted a Hamas command center.
Medics said the tent encampment is located in the Al-Mawasi area, which is designated as a humanitarian zone and is crowded with displaced Palestinians who have fled from elsewhere in the enclave.
Residents and medics said at least four missiles slammed into the area, setting several tents ablaze.
“Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It looks like a new Israeli massacre,” a Gaza civil emergency official said.
The Israeli military said it “struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control center embedded inside the Humanitarian Area in Khan Younis.”
“The terrorists advanced and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel,” the statement said referring to Israeli Defense Forces.
Ambulances were racing back and forth from the area to a nearby hospital, while Israeli jets could still be heard overhead, residents said.
(Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi; Editing by Chris Reese and Cynthia Osterman)
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