Bomb (Air Delivered) event in Palestine on Tue 10th September 2024

An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza has killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.

At least 19 bodies arrived at hospitals from the humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. More than 60 people were also wounded, it said, as rescuers raced to recover victims buried under sand and debris.

“People thought they were asleep safely. Suddenly we woke up to the sounds of explosions, and fires were surrounding us from every side. We didn’t know where the strike hit, where the remains are, or where the blood is. Everything was scattered,” Mahmoud Al Nims, a resident, told CNN.

CNN footage from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis showed men and boys standing in congregation to perform Islamic funeral prayers for the deceased on Tuesday. Mourners carried the dead, including children, in white shrouds as women wailed at the steps of the hospital.