Reuters. At the site of an attack in Khan Younis, eyewitnesses recounted on Wednesday (July 10) the events that unfolded after an Israeli airstrike hit the tents of displaced families outside Al-Awda Girls Secondary School in the town of Abassan east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 29 people, most of them women and children, according to Palestinian medical officials.
"There was a group of women and young men (over there) and we were just sitting as normal and suddenly a rocket fell over there. Everyone started running and I opened the door to the room and I saw shrapnel that came through there. I got scared and shut the door and ran," said young woman Ghazzal Nasser.
"They were watching a football match. There were injuries and martyrs. I witnessed this...people thrown around and body parts were scattered, blood," Nasser added.
Another eyewitness, Rushdi Qudeih said: "Suddenly as they were sitting there, looking at the internet (on their phones) and sitting there, suddenly they were hit..with no forewarning or anything. We found them scattered all over the place. We have been destroyed. There is no more life."
The Israeli military said it was reviewing reports that civilians were harmed. It said the incident occurred when it struck with "precise munition" a Hamas fighter who took part in the Oct. 7 raid on Israel that precipitated the Israeli assault on Gaza.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces deepened their incursion into two Gaza City districts. Soldiers carried out house-to-house searches in some areas and tanks shelled several homes, according to residents.
The militant group Hamas said the renewed Israeli campaign killed more than 60 Palestinians across the enclave on Tuesday and threatened to derail efforts to secure a ceasefire in the nine-month-old war with talks to resume in Doha on Wednesday.
