Israeli military commits another massacre in south of Gaza, ICRC unable to help
Palestinian residents of Khuza'a, a town east of Khan Younis city in
the south of the Gaza Strip, accused on Thursday the employees of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of deceiving them,
leaving them trapped under heavy Israeli fire, Pls48 news website reported.
Surviving witnesses reportedly told Palestinian news agency Safa
that the ICRC had asked them to flee their homes, encircled by Israeli
tanks and under heavy fire by Israeli artillery, towards the entrance of
the neighbourhood, where the ICRC staff should have been.
The witnesses said that they started leaving their homes, but instead
of finding the ICRC staff at the entrance, they found Israeli tanks
that started firing at them, killing and wounding scores.
Safa's correspondent and the spokesperson of the ministry of
health in Gaza both confirmed that there were many deaths and injuries
caused by direct Israeli fire at civilians trying to flee the besieged
neighbourhood.
For the third consecutive day, Israeli occupation forces have been
firing at residential homes in Khuza'a, resulting in a massacre similar
to the one committed in Shujaya earlier this week.
As Israeli occupation forces have prevented ambulances from entering
the town, wounded civilians in need of immediate treatment were rushed
to the house of a local physician. However, witnesses said that after a
few minutes the Israeli occupation targeted the house with an F16
rocket, killing the brother of the physician and wounding several
others.
Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights described what is going on in
Khuza'a as a massacre like the one in Shejaiya. "It is another
humanitarian catastrophe," a statement for the organisation said.
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and rescue team and Palestinians search at the wreckage of a building,
destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza on July 24, 2014
