Dozens reported killed in Israeli strike on Gaza tent camp

An official in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip says at least 40 people were killed and 60 injured in an Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza where the military said Hamas was operating a command and control center.

The official says the number represents those who were found and transferred to hospitals, with civil defense officials indicating more people may be missing beneath the wreckage.

A spokesperson for Hamas’s civil defense unit quoted by the Hamas-linked Shehab news agency claims entire families were swallowed under mountains of sand in the strike, which left massive holes in the ground, though rescuers lack the equipment to dig them out.

Videos show Gazans desperately clawing at mounds of sand in the darkness as they try to reach the dead and injured.

بالفيديو | استمرار عملية البحث عن الشهداء والمفقودين بالأيادي في مكان #مجزرة_المواصي غرب #خانيونس pic.twitter.com/8gmiXNniA4

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