Palestinian health officials say Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. Sunday's strike came as Israel vowed to press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause in fighting to get aid to civilians.

Palestinian health officials say Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. Sunday’s strike came as Israel vowed to press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause in fighting to get aid to civilians.

Arafat Abu Mashaia, who lives in the camp, said the Israeli airstrike flattened several multi-story homes where people forced out of other parts of Gaza were sheltering.

“It was a true massacre,” he said early Sunday while standing on the wreckage of destroyed homes. “All here are peaceful people. I challenge anyone who says there were resistance (fighters) here.”

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    5•1 year ago

    Interesting observation that this refugee camp has been a more or less permanent home for its inhabitants since 1948. It might be interesting to think about where those refugees came from, why they had to flee their homes, and what has prevented them from returning for 75 years.

    • @galloog1
      1•1 year ago

      You are welcome to blame colonial powers for setting up this situation from the remains of the Ottoman Empire but it is also worth going into why Israelis have been driven out of the rest of the world into Israel and the multiple wars conducted against them by powers claiming they have no right to exist. Those same claims are continued by Hamas and Iran and used to justify starting this current war. The same borders that instituted Israel also initially instituted Palestine until they conducted a war against them. That war was what caused these borders at question with the refugee camp.

      It absolutely is worth looking into the history behind it.

      Your comment does not address the fact that the above was disinformation. Not misinformation, but disinformation as it is intentionally misleading.