23 killed in Israeli strikes on tents of displaced Gazans

TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Palestinian media said Thursday that Israeli warplanes struck several tents overnight housing displaced Palestinians in the southern Khan Younis area, killing 23 people.

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EghtesadOnline: The Palestinian Sama News Agency announced that at least 23 people were martyred following an Israeli airstrike on displaced people's tents in the Al-Mawasi town, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

According to Palestinian reports, these people were burned alive in a fire caused by the airstrikes.

Medical sources have described the attack as a horrific crime.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s civil defense agency told AFP that “At least 16 martyrs, most of them women and children, and 23 others were wounded following a direct strike by two Israeli missiles on several tents housing displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.”