CAPITALS - SABA: The Zionist enemy army continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the 340th consecutive day, committing more massacres against the Palestinians in the Strip, killing 41,020 martyrs, and 94,925 wounded, most of them children and women, since the beginning of the aggression.
As part of its ongoing genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip, which has been supported by the United States for the past 11 months, the Zionist forces committed a massacre early this morning.
They launched a devastating airstrike targeting the displaced persons' tents in Mawasi Khan Yunis, located in the southwest of the Strip. This attack resulted in numerous deaths and injuries, including many children and women, with a significant number of civilians still unaccounted for.
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that the Zionist forces targeted the displaced persons' tents with five missiles, leading to a significant massacre among the displaced population. According to the statement, 40 bodies and 60 injured individuals have been recovered, while dozens more are still missing beneath the rubble and craters created by the bombing.
The report detailed that entire families have vanished under the debris as a result of the attack, emphasizing that "estimates suggest we are witnessing one of the most horrific massacres" since the onset of the Zionist aggression against Gaza.
The Civil Defense indicated that fires broke out in at least 20 tents, and the missiles caused holes up to nine meters deep.
It pointed out that the Zionist enemy aircraft used heavy concussion missiles in the raids on the tents of the displaced, indicating that the massacre was committed in al-Mawasi area, which the enemy declared a safe humanitarian area and is crowded with displaced people.
The media office in Gaza has declared that the US administration is fully responsible for the ongoing horrific massacres perpetrated by the Zionist forces against the Palestinian people. The office called on the international community to exert pressure on both the US and the Zionist forces to halt the campaign of extermination.
Palestinian resistance factions have described the early morning massacre as a war crime, underscoring its continuation of the broader campaign of extermination. They urged the international community to end its silence and take action to stop the aggression.
The factions emphasized that the ongoing actions amount to war crimes for which the US administration is held accountable, as it provides the Israeli state with weapons and protection, thereby enabling it to continue these acts.
In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted the international community's failure to enforce UN resolutions and International Court of Justice rulings, which are intended to compel Israel to halt its aggression against the Palestinian people. This inaction, according to the Ministry, encourages further atrocities, including massacres, ethnic cleansing, and displacement of Palestinians, by granting continued impunity to Israel and its leaders.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, in a statement on its website, has asserted that Washington is "complicit in the crimes" perpetrated by the Israeli army in al-Mawasi, as the attacks were carried out with American-made weapons.
The Monitor reported that its preliminary investigations revealed that Israeli warplanes used three American-made MK-84 bombs to target the tents of displaced people in Al-Mawasi while they slept. This bombing created deep craters, burying approximately 20 tents along with the families inside them.
The organization emphasized that Washington is "complicit in this crime," given that it supplies the Israeli military with weapons and destructive bombs, despite knowing that these are used to kill hundreds of civilians."
The Observatory emphasized that the use of such powerful American-made bombs in an area densely populated with tents and displaced individuals indicates the Israeli army's intent to cause maximum civilian casualties, highlighting that no evacuation warnings were issued before the bombing.
In response to claims by the Israeli army that the strike targeted resistance fighters among the displaced, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas issued a statement denying these allegations. Hamas described the claims as a "blatant lie," intended to justify what it calls "heinous crimes." The statement reiterated that the resistance has consistently denied the presence of its fighters among civilian populations or the use of such areas for military purposes.
It pointed out that in light of these repeated brutal massacres against civilians and displaced persons in tents, schools and shelters, the international community, the United Nations and all political, humanitarian and judicial institutions are required today to leave the square of silence and helplessness, and assume their responsibility to stop this holocaust that has been ongoing for 11 months, and to work to stop this savage aggression, and take the necessary measures to bring the Zionist war criminals to the International Criminal Court, and hold them accountable for these heinous crimes.
Arab and international condemnations of this heinous massacre continued, confirming that the widespread violations against civilians are an insistence on genocide crimes, and an affirmation of the American insistence on continuing the crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people.
In this context, Kuwait expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the new massacre committed by the Zionist enemy forces against innocent displaced Palestinians in the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed - in a statement today, Tuesday - that this "brutal targeting of defenseless civilians, women and children, is conclusive evidence that the Zionist occupation forces are waging a war of extermination against the Palestinians in flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law."
The ministry renewed the State of Kuwait's demands for the international community and the Security Council to move quickly to stop the war of extermination that these forces have been waging on the Strip since October 2023.
In a sharp and forceful condemnation, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani decried the attack, calling for immediate and decisive action from international institutions, particularly the UN Security Council, to halt the ongoing atrocities committed by the Israeli state. Kanani declared that "the Zionist terrorist entity, with its frenzied assaults on Palestinian civilians and displaced persons' camps, has demonstrated a complete disregard for legal, international, and humanitarian standards."
UN Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland also denounced what he described as a brutal assault on the city of Khan Younis in Gaza.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy labeled the Israeli raid as "shocking" and underscored the urgent need for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Turkey issued a strong condemnation, with the Turkish Foreign Ministry accusing the Israeli government of perpetrating a new crime in its ongoing campaign of genocide.
Norway also condemned the massacre, with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide stating on the X platform that all parties must uphold their obligation to protect civilians and adhere to international humanitarian law.
The area of Khan Younis has seen several massacres in recent months, with the latest attack occurring in July when Israeli aircraft targeted displaced persons' tents in a so-called attempt to assassinate Palestinian resistance leader Mohammed Deif.
This region, which was supposed to be a "safe" zone, has become the site of numerous fatalities and injuries among displaced civilians.
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