Operation "Storm of Al-Aqsa" entered its 281st day, with the Israeli occupation forces continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip, through dozens of airstrikes, artillery bombardment, and bloody massacres against civilians.
A horrific massacre in the Moasi area of Khan Yunis
The occupation continues its aggression on Gaza, where it committed a horrific massacre against displaced persons in the Moasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern part of the Strip. More than 71 martyrs and more than 289 wounded, including serious cases, were reported by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The Palestinian Media Center reported that the occupation army targeted a residential building with six missiles on the main road between the Nas Intersection and Al-Aqsa University roundabout in the Moasi area of Khan Yunis. The occupation had previously designated it as a safe area before launching fiery belts and shelling the tents of the displaced persons and civil defense teams that arrived to rescue them.
Sources said that the civil defense teams went to rescue the displaced persons in the Moasi massacre in Khan Yunis and were targeted, resulting in the deaths and injuries of many of them.
The Gaza government media office said that the Israeli army committed a major massacre by shelling the camps of the displaced persons in Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), which resulted in over 100 martyrs and wounded, including members and officers of the civil defense, in preliminary toll.
The office added that government and relief teams are still pulling out dozens of martyrs and wounded from the site of the bombing and targeting. This massacre comes at a time when there are no hospitals capable of receiving this large number of martyrs and wounded, and coinciding with the destruction of the health system in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces also committed a second massacre by targeting a mosque near the White Mosque in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City, resulting in the death of at least 20 citizens and injuring dozens, according to the Palestinian Media Center.
"Hamas": The Moasi massacre is a continuation of Nazi genocide
The Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" affirmed that the Moasi massacre in Khan Yunis is a continuation of the Nazi genocide against our people, pointing out that the American administration is a direct partner in this crime.
In a statement today, Hamas condemned in the strongest terms the horrific Moasi massacre in Khan Yunis, constituting a dangerous escalation in the series of unprecedented crimes and massacres in the history of wars, committed in the Gaza Strip by the new Nazis.
Hamas stated that this heinous massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army targeted the Moasi area west of Khan Yunis, an area classified by the occupation army as "safe zones." The citizens were called to move to it, where the occupation's aircraft, artillery, and drones intensively and continuously targeted the tents of the displaced persons with various types of weapons, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and wounded among innocent civilians.
Hamas added that the Mawasi massacre in Khan Yunis; Which targeted an area crowded with more than eighty thousand displaced people. A clear confirmation from the Zionist government that it is continuing its war of extermination against our Palestinian people. A war of extermination through the repeated and systematic targeting of defenseless civilians, in tents, displacement centers and residential neighborhoods, and committing the most heinous crimes against them, ignoring calls to stop targeting innocent civilians, or paying attention to any of the laws of war that require their protection.
Hamas emphasized that this disregard for the law and international treaties, and the widespread violations against innocent civilians, would not have continued without the support provided by the American administration to the extremist Zionist government and its terrorist army. They cover up their crimes, provide them with all means of political and military support, and handicap the international justice from fulfilling its role towards these crimes, making it a full partner in them.
"Hamas": Occupation claims of targeting leaders are false
The Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" stated that the occupation's claims of targeting leaders are false.
The movement clarified in a press statement that this is not the first time the occupation claims to have targeted Palestinian leaders, only for their lies to be exposed later.
It stressed that these false claims are only to cover up the size of the horrific massacre.
Highlights of Resistance Operations
The Palestinian resistance continues to confront the invading Zionist forces on multiple fronts in Gaza, where the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced today that it ambushed a convoy of Israeli vehicles and destroyed 3 "Merkava" tanks with "Yasin 105" shells near Abu Thar Al-Ghafari Mosque east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also managed to detonate a minefield in an Israeli engineering force, causing casualties in the Shoka neighborhood east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades further reported targeting a Zionist bulldozer of the "D9" type with a "Yasin 105" shell, causing it to catch fire near the cemetery east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, the Al-Qassam fighters targeted a Zionist jeep of the "Hummer" type with an RPG shell, engaging in clashes with a number of occupation soldiers nearby and inflicting casualties near the Council of Ministers in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Al-Quds Brigades also announced shelling with mortar shells a position of enemy soldiers and vehicles in the "Netzareem" axis south of Tel al-Hawa in western Gaza City.
