from the Daily Sabah
At least 45 Palestinians, mostly displaced women and children, were killed Sunday when a barbaric Israeli bombardment targeted a Rafah tent camp for displaced people.
The Gazan Health Ministry said in a statement that the strikes "claimed the lives of 45 martyrs and left dozens injured, most of them children and women," while the Israeli army claimed it had targeted Hamas members.
The media office in Gaza earlier said the attack hit a center run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Tal al-Sultan near Rafah, branding it a "horrific massacre."
Israeli aircraft targeted several tents in the area, the media office said, adding that missiles and 2,000-pound bombs were used.
Earlier, Gaza's civil defense force said it transported 50 people, including dead and injured, after the bombing. The targeted area sheltered at least 100,000 displaced people, it said.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society in a brief statement said its ambulance crews were moving the victims to nearby medical centers.
The attack led to fires engulfing the area some of which are still raging, according to witnesses.
"We retrieved a large number of child martyrs from the Israeli bombardment, including a child without a head and children whose bodies have turned into fragments," a Palestinian paramedic told Anadolu...
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