At least five Palestinians were killed in the early hours of today in an Israeli shelling of tents for displaced people surrounding the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip.. The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported. The Hamas government in the Strip reported that 18 people were injured in the attack; some are in serious condition and all are being treated in the same hospital. “We strongly condemn the perpetration of this massacre,” the government said, pointing the finger at “the Israeli occupation and the US administration.”
Israeli drones bombed the tents of hundreds of displaced people sheltering around the hospital, according to Wafa, also causing a massive fire in the refugee camp. In videos shot by the displaced people themselves, the tents can be seen reduced to their skeletons in the flames, while several people try to save the bodies of the victims of the fire and others try to prevent it from spreading. Last night, according to Wafa, the army also attacked a house in the western part of Deir al Balah, killing three more people. In the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, eight more people lost their lives in the air strike against the house of the Al Amoudi family, in the northwest of the camp. (AGI)