Gaza airstrike crash happened as displaced people set out for football fit: eyewitnesses

GAZA – An Israeli missile struck a tent camp in southern Gaza on Tuesday as displaced people gathered there to watch a college football match, observers said on Wednesday.

According to Palestinian officials, the attack killed at least 29 people, mostly women and children, who gathered as crowds of spectators gathered on school grounds in Abasan, east of the city of Khan Younis, and hawkers selling smoothies. Bought more sweets. Biscuits.

“They were watching a football match. There were injuries and martyrs. I saw this…people thrown here and there and body parts scattered, blood,” Ghazal Nasir, a tender girl, told Reuters in Abasan. gave advice.

“Everything was normal. People were playing, others were buying and selling food and beverages,” he said. “There was no sound of the plane or anything.”

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The Israeli military said it was reviewing reports that civilians were harmed. It noted that the incident occurred when he fired “precision ammunition” at a Hamas fighter who was involved in an October 7 attack on Israel that led to the conflict.

The army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether it knew a football match was going on when the hit was ordered.

Inside the Nasser Medical Institution, dozens of Palestinians say goodbye to their loved ones before funerals and burials.

Asma Qudih, who lost some of her relatives in the attack, said, “The schools were packed with people and the street was also full, suddenly a missile hit and destroyed the whole place.”

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“Bodies flew through the air, body parts flew, I don’t know how to describe it,” he said.

The Israeli army continued its offensive in north and central Gaza on Wednesday, deepening its incursion into two Gaza Town districts, carrying out house-to-house searches.

Militant organization Hamas said talks would resume in Doha on Wednesday as a renewed Israeli campaign threatened to derail efforts to maintain a ceasefire in the nine-month-old conflict.

In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Center East envoy Brett McGurk that he is committed to securing a Gaza ceasefire agreement, provided Israel’s red lines are respected, his office said.

Hamas has approved a key part of a US plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old conflict, losing the condition that Israel decide on a permanent ceasefire before signing a memorandum of understanding.

Netanyahu has stressed that Israel should not refuse to restart the war until its goals are met. At the beginning of the conflict, he pledged to destroy Hamas.

Civilians escaping from Gaza attack

Leaflets were dropped in Gaza City on Wednesday, containing maps marking “safe routes” for the evacuation of the entire city, not just certain districts. Israeli leaflets urge citizens to move to the south side of the central Gaza Strip.

The city, which was home to more than a quarter of Gaza’s population before the war, was destroyed by an Israeli attack in the early weeks of the war, but thousands of Gazans are believed to have returned to the ruins. In current months.

Civilians said Israeli forces patrolled the coast’s main road, snipers still occupied the rooftops of some high-rise buildings, and tanks were deployed at the headquarters of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.

The Israeli military said in a statement that its forces were continuing operations against militants from Hamas and its best friend Islamic Jihad in Gaza City, adding that they had operated from within UNRWA facilities, giving them a base for attacks. Was used as.

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The Palestinian Red Crescent said it heard dozens of desperate screams from civilians trapped in their homes in Gaza City, but the group was not able to reach them due to the intensity of the bombardment.

One observation noted, “Information coming from Gaza City shows that residents are living in tragic conditions. (Israeli) occupation forces are attacking residential districts, and forcing people out of their homes and shelters. are being displaced from.”

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The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad noted that fighters fought Israeli forces operating within the section with anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs, and at times in close-range combat.

The Israeli army announced that one of its infantrymen was killed in fighting in central Gaza on Tuesday. It has revealed the names of 681 military personnel killed in the October 7 attacks and the subsequent fighting.

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on Wednesday that 60% of Hamas fighters were killed or wounded in the army’s offensive in Gaza.

In the central Gaza camp of al-Nusirat, medics said six Palestinians, including children, were killed in an airstrike on a house, another airstrike in Khan Younis killed two people and wounded several others.

State officials in the Hamas-run territory said more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began.

The conflict began when Hamas-led militants crossed into southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages back into Gaza, according to Israeli data.