The strike in Muwasi is a desolate area with few public services that hold hundreds of thousands of displaced people, also wounded at least 28 people, according to Atif Al-Hout, the director of Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Israeli aerial bombardment targeted makeshift camps for displaced Palestinians in the so-called Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone."
An Associated Press journalist at Nasser Hospital counted at least 15 bodies, but he said reaching a precise number was difficult because many of the dead were dismembered, some without heads or badly burned.
Gaza's civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP that the victims included “five children, and dozens were injured after the occupation (Israel) bombed the tents of the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area" near Khan Younis.
The strikes were the latest deadly assault in the war-wracked Gaza Strip, where Israel's war on Gaza is nearly 14 months old and showing no end in sight, despite international efforts to revive negotiations toward a ceasefire.
Local sources in Sheikh Radwan (Gaza City) said that Israeli fighter jets pounded a house belonging to the ad-Dalu family in the neighbourhood, claiming the lives of at least 10 civilians and injuring others.
The Israeli army committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing 30 civilians and injuring 84 others on Wednesday, according to WAFA.
The victims were killed in various parts of the Gaza Strip, near the Al-Shifa Tower and Salah Al-Din Road, both in Gaza City.
Another 11 Palestinians, including six children and one medic, were killed in three airstrikes on areas in central Gaza.
Five of the victims had been queuing outside a bakery.
Another nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli tank fire in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, medics said.
Meanwhile, emergency and rescue crews retrieved the body of a fatality following Israeli bombardment that targeted the al-Gneinia neighbourhood east of Rafah.
Israeli occupation forces also fired on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza for the fifth successive day, hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that families in the Gaza Strip are facing dire conditions due to repeated displacement.
The UN agency added in a post on X, "In Deir al-Balah in the centre of the Strip, and throughout the Gaza Strip, families continue to face dire conditions".
It explained that these families are being displaced repeatedly due to the ongoing shelling, are seeking shelter in crowded UNRWA schools and temporary tents, and are struggling to access necessities.
It reiterated the "urgent need for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and ensuring unhindered access to humanitarian assistance that meets the growing needs".
The Israeli war on Gaza since 7 October 2023 has forced about two million of the Strip's citizens, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to be displaced in tragic conditions with a deliberate severe shortage of food, water and medicine.
Famine has spread in most areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in the north, following the persistence of genocide and starvation to force citizens to migrate south.
Israel has killed 44,532 Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women. Some 105,538 others have been wounded.
Thousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulance and civil defence teams are facing difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks, the massive amount of debris and the shortage of fuel and heavy equipment.
The UNRWA also said that Israel continues its disinformation campaign against the agency. Through commercial advertisements, including billboards in several cities worldwide and paid Google ads on various websites, the Israeli government has intensified its campaign, as explained in a statement.
These ads are part of a broader campaign by Israel, which has repeatedly called for the dismantling of the agency.
The recent global effort to label a UN agency as a terrorist organization may amount to hate speech, utilizing corporations meant to promote commercial products, according to the statement.
The campaign is causing significant reputational damage to UNRWA, which is currently the largest humanitarian provider for people in Gaza enduring the ongoing war. "These ads can put the lives of UNRWA personnel at serious risk," the agency warned.
Since the start of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, Israel has killed 251 UNRWA team members, and two-thirds of the agency's buildings in Gaza have been damaged, many of them directly hit multiple times.
UNRWA emphasized that those responsible for spreading disinformation, including advertising companies, must stop and be held accountable. "Regulations must be put in place to control the spread of such damaging and potentially dangerous messages," the agency stressed.
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