Dozens were killed and many more injured in a blast at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip late Saturday. The director of communications at the Al-Aqsa hospital, Mohammad al Hajj, told CNN the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike.
Dozens were killed and many more injured in a blast at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip late Saturday, according to an official at a nearby hospital and eyewitnesses who spoke with CNN.
The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment as to whether it was targeting the area. The Israel Defense Forces says it is looking into the circumstances around the explosion. “The number of people inside the hospital who need treatment is more than double the number of beds in the hospital,” he told CNN.
Alaloul, a freelance photojournalist with the Turkish news agency Anadolu, said his home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.The Israel Defense Forces told CNN it is looking into the circumstances of the blast.“I saw my son Kenan, my daughter Rahaf, I saw Ahmad my son … and Qais, my son. I saw my three siblings martyred; I saw friends who were at my house martyred,” Alaloul said.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency , the camp is filled with narrow alleys, where 33,000 people lived before the conflict, in a relatively densely packed area no more than 0.6 square kilometers. “I saw a red light, then we were shaking on the sofa, I saw all my sisters screaming. … When I found myself alive, I looked to see who is still alive,” she said.Her mother, Sundos Shaqura, said the whole house collapsed suddenly on them, as they shared some tea after their evening prayer.
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