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Senior Hamas commander targeted in al-Mawasi attack that killed dozens of civilians: Report

A report on Israeli Army Radio quoting military sources claims that at least one high-profile Hamas commander was targeted in the al-Mawasi attack that has killed and wounded dozens of civilians.

This has not yet been confirmed.


Hamas official dismisses Israeli media report on Deif as ‘nonsense’

Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, has told Reuters that an Israeli Army Radio report that the attack on al-Mawasi had targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif is “nonsense”. “All the martyrs are civilians and what happened was a grave escalation of the war of genocide, backed by the American support and world silence,” he said.

Zuhri also said that the attack showed Israel was not interested in reaching a ceasefire agreement.


Civil defence team, Health Ministry teams directly targeted: Journalist

Journalist Firas Abu Sharkh, who was wounded while covering the Israeli shelling in al-Mawasi, has said Israeli forces “directly targeted” the civil defence and the Ministry of Health teams.

“When we arrived at the scene, the civil defence teams and the Ministry of Health were directly targeted,” he said.

“The rockets fell on civilians violently and indiscriminately. We tried to save them. The place is crowded with civilians and the tents are full of displaced people, and this is supposed to be a safe place.”

Many women and children were among the killed and wounded who have arrived at the hospitals.


Israeli forces targeted rescue teams as soon as they arrived: Witnesses

Local media outlets in Gaza are quoting witnesses of the Israeli bombing in al-Mawasi as saying that a series of violent raids by Israeli fighter jets targeted the camp for displaced people.

They said this was followed by squadrons of quadcopter aircraft that waited for the ambulance and civil defence teams and opened fire with their machine guns on the cars as soon as they arrived.

As we’ve been reporting, dozens of civilians have so far been reported killed and wounded.


Civil defence says official killed, members wounded in central Khan Younis

The rescue organsation says in a statement that Colonel Muhammad Osama Hamad, deputy director of its fire and rescue department, was killed while trying to rescue wounded civilians after the Israeli army hit a residential building in the centre of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The director general of the civil defence said the Israeli army targeted the building a second time while rescue crews were working to save those inside, killing Hamad and wounding eight other crew members.

This attack is separate from Israel’s bombing of al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, which killed at least 50 people.


Death toll in Israel’s attack on al-Mawasi rises to 71: Health Ministry

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that more than 71 people have been killed in Israel’s attack, in which warplanes targeted an area where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the Khan Younis governorate.

It added that the number of injuries that resulted from this attack rose to 289.