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Widespread international and Arab condemnation of Israel’s continued targeting of civilians

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At least 40 people were martyred and 60 wounded in the Mawash Khan Younis massacre carried out by occupation forces early Tuesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense Corps. The international community and the Arab world widely condemned it.

“We strongly condemn today’s deadly airstrike against the populated area of ​​Khan Younis, which Israel has designated as a humanitarian zone,” Tor Wenesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said in a statement. , where refugees were taking refuge.”

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said at a joint press conference in London with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken on Tuesday that Israel’s shocking airstrikes show the need for a ceasefire. “The ceasefire in Gaza and the shocking death of Khan Younis this morning reinforce the urgent need for a ceasefire.”

Norway condemned the massacre, with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide in a post on the

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry also condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s targeting of civilian tents in a supposedly “safe” area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing dozens of Palestinians.

“We condemn the targeting of Mawash Khan Younis as a new attack, a repeat violation of the Israeli war machine against defenseless civilians,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Palestine condemned the massacre and saw it as a reflection of international failure to stop genocide and migration wars. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, “This brutal massacre is an endless massacre and an expansion of the genocide and refugee war,” and added, “It is Israel’s official policy to turn the entire Gaza Strip into an empty land.” “Land unsuitable for human habitation.”

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In the same vein, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Tuesday that Israeli warplanes dropped three American-made MK-84 bombs on the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, It was revealed that about 20 tents were buried as a result. Refugees and the people within them.

The Observatory said in Mawasi Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against refugees in dilapidated tents in an area it declared “humanitarian”, while the international community remained silent about this crime. He added that this is further evidence that they are doing it. Israel’s 11 months of genocide against Palestinians and its failure to properly address the genocide encourage Israel to commit more of these crimes.

He pointed out that the United States was a sympathizer of Mawash Khan Younis’ crimes, including supplying weapons and destructive bombs to the Israeli occupation forces. He warned that the massacre comes just a month after the occupation forces bombed the ‘Al-Tabiyin’ school in Gaza City, killing more than 100 Palestinians.

On Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced that 40 Palestinians had been martyred and 60 wounded in the massacre carried out by Israeli occupation forces against refugee tents in the al-Mawash area. “There are about 200 tents in the target area, and 20 to 40 tents were completely damaged by the bombing,” he explained.

With US support, Israel has waged a devastating war in the Gaza Strip since October 7, leaving an estimated 136,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid widespread destruction and deadly famine. It is done.

Israel continues its war in desecration of the international community, ignoring UN Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate halt and orders from the International Court of Justice to take steps to prevent genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. I’m doing it.

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