Dozens have been killed by an Israeli airstrike at a centre run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Gaza officials said, branding it a 'horrific massacre'.
Israeli strikes on an area designated for displaced people killed dozens in a "massacre" near the southern city of Rafah, Gaza officials said. The Gaza health ministry said in a statement that the strikes "claimed the lives of 35 martyrs and left dozens injured, most of them children and women".
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its ambulance crews transported "a large number" of people killed and injured in the Rafah strikes. The Palestinian presidency in the West Bank called it a "heinous massacre", accusing Israeli forces of "deliberately targeting" the tents of displaced people. Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed and wounded at least 50 people in the area, where it said 100,000 displaced people live.
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