Nine children are among at least 14 Palestinians killed in strikes on al-Mawasi, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health

There was little shelter and barely any services in al-Mawasi when the Abu Hatab family arrived seeking sanctuary from the intensifying bombardment around their homes in Khan Yunis.

But al-Mawasi was the one place they had been told they would be safe. From early November Israel urged the civilian population of Gaza evacuate to the narrow, sandy coastal strip the size of Heathrow airport.

On Wednesday night, the bombardment followed them to the so-called safe zone, when shelling rained down on their flimsy tents as they slept.

“They dropped leaflets and told us to come here, that this was truly the one safe place,” Bahaa Abu Hatab, one of the survivors said. “My brother took his children to protect them from the occupation’s missiles, but here they were martyred anyway, in this ‘safe’ place, in the tent that my brother set up in this field.”

At least 14 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed in strikes on al-Mawasi early on Thursday, according to the Hamas-run ministry of health in Gaza.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
    7•4 months ago

    even if they commit the same atrocities that led the Jewish people to this new home not a century later.

    Slight correction: They committed those atrocities exactly 4 years after Nazi Germany fell. This is the continuation of that.

    • @MycatiskaiEnglish
      7•4 months ago

      Irgun was a Zionist paramilitary organization operation working in Palestine before Nazi Germany started.

      The Zionist movement began in the late 1800s trying to make a Jewish state where there already was a land with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian people living in peace.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        4•4 months ago

        Yeah that’s true, but their full-scale recreation of Nazi Germany began in 1948/49 during with Nakba, so that’s what I was referring to.