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Israeli attack on tent camp in southern Gaza kills at least 21
Palestinians survey the aftermath of an Israeli army airstrike on Wednesday at the Muwassi camp for displaced people near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 5, 2024

ISRAELI forces targeted a tent camp housing displaced people in southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and wounding another 28.

The attack took place in the Muwasi area, a sprawling coastal camp housing hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

The director of the Nasser Hospital, Atif al-Hout, in the nearby city of Khan Younis reported at least 15 bodies arrived at the hospital but said that establishing a precise number of dead was difficult because many were dismembered, some without heads or badly burned.

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