Rescue and civil defense teams have completed their search for the bodies of martyrs and wounded who fell due to the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against displaced Palestinians in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense authorities in Gaza explained in a statement today that rescue teams have recovered 400 people, including martyrs and wounded, as a result of the series of violent airstrikes launched by the occupation, which destroyed 1,200 tents housing thousands of displaced people in the area, as well as a charitable hospice and caused significant damage to a water desalination plant and other facilities and services.
The statement condemned the Israeli occupation's insistence on targeting civilians and refusing to coordinate the entry of rescue and civil defense teams to retrieve the bodies of the martyrs, and obstructing the rescue and treatment of the wounded in the areas of ground incursions until they become martyrs.
The Civil Defense indicated that its teams have also recovered more than 10 martyrs from the Tal al-Hawa and Al-Sina'a areas in Gaza City, while there are still a number of missing persons under the rubble at a time when the occupation aircraft continue to bomb citizens' homes in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
The latest statistics indicated that more than 90 martyrs were killed and 300 others were injured, most of them women and children, as a result of the massacre committed by the occupation forces in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis yesterday, Saturday, targeting the tents of the displaced in the area, in a new episode in the series of ongoing crimes of the occupation against defenseless Palestinians.
The area targeted by the occupation raids is crowded with displaced people, and is an extension of Al-Aqsa Market. The occupation forces had previously designated it a safe zone before launching violent raids and bombing the tents of the displaced and the civil defense crews that arrived to rescue, which led to a number of martyrs and wounded among the rescue personnel.