The Israel Defense Forces on Friday yet again shelled tents of displaced Palestinians near the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 and wounding another 50, local health and emergency officials said.

“According to Ahmed Radwan, a spokesperson for Civil Defense first responders in Rafah, witnesses told rescue workers about the shelling at two locations in a coastal area that has become filled with tents,” The Associated Press reported.

“The locations of the attacks provided by the Civil Defense appear to be just outside an Israeli-designated safe zone,” the news agency noted. “The Israeli military said the episode was under review but that ‘there is no indication that a strike was carried out by the IDF’ inside the safe zone, using an acronym for the Israeli forces. It did not offer details on the episode or say what the intended targets might have been.”

An Israeli attack on a tent camp for forcibly displaced Palestinians has killed at least 25 people and wounded 50 in Gaza’s Mawasi, according to local health officials. Loved ones took many of the dead to nearby Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/rbsQCjFDdi

The AP shared firsthand accounts from survivors of the Al-Mawasi attack, as did Al Jazeera:

“We had just eaten and were about to sleep and take some rest, and the next we knew was the sound of resounding explosions destroying our places! We find ourselves alone not........

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