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until I saw my family in one piece. These are the (Zionist) targets. Look at them,” he said, gesturing to the baby girl in his arms. “We were in humanitarian areas that were supposed to be safe.”

Residents and medics said the camp was struck by five or six missiles or bombs. “We saw women cut in pieces, children cut in pieces and martyrs. There are still people missing. People are looking for them and they still have not found them yet,” survivor Ola Al-Shaer told Reuters at the site. “Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It looks like a new (Zionist) massacre,” a Gaza civil emergency official said. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Basal said people sheltering in the camp in the dunes along the Mediterranean coast had not been warned of the strike. The strike left behind “three deep craters”, he said, adding: “There are entire families who disappeared under the sand.”

Hamas said claims its fighters were present at the scene of the strike were “a blatant lie”. UN envoy Tor Wennesland condemned the strike, saying international humanitarian law “must be upheld at all times”, while stressing “civilians must never be used as human shields”.

Meanwhile, the Zionist military said on Tuesday it was highly likely its forces accidentally shot dead a US-Turkish activist during a protest in the occupied West Bank last week. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed on Friday in the West Bank town of Beita, the site of weekly demonstrations against Zionist settlements.

In a statement on Eygi’s death, the Zionist military said an inquiry had “found that it is highly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by (Zionist) fire”. It added that the fire “was not aimed at her, but aimed at the key instigator of the riot”. The United Nations rights office had earlier said Zionist forces killed Eygi with a “shot in the head”.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said he will press the Zionist entity to make “fundamental changes” in its operations in the occupied West Bank. After an initially measured response to Friday’s death of Eygi pending a fact-finding exercise, Blinken said the United States would raise her death at senior levels with its key ally. The investigation, and eyewitness accounts, make clear “that her killing was both unprovoked and unjustified”, Blinken told reporters on a visit to London. — Agencies

“No one should be shot and killed for attending a protest. No one should have to put their life at risk just for freely expressing their views,” he said. “We have the second American citizen killed at the hands of (Zionist) security forces. It’s not acceptable. It has to change.” Blinken renewed concern about the lack of repercussions for Zionist settlers who have attacked Palestinians in the West Bank as war rages in Gaza.

Eygi’s family rejected the military’s version of events and called its preliminary inquiry “wholly inadequate”. “She was taking shelter in an olive grove when she was shot in the head and killed by a bullet from a (Zionist) soldier,” they said in a statement. “This cannot be misconstrued as anything other except a deliberate, targeted and precise attack by the military against an unarmed civilian.”

The US has maintained its support for the Zionist entity despite repeated concern over the deaths of US citizens. The State Department said last month that it would not impose sanctions on a Zionist unit involved in the death of a Palestinian-American grocer, Omar Assad, who died after being handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded in the cold. In 2022, the US said it did not have evidence that the Zionist entity deliberately killed Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Al Jazeera journalist who held US citizenship. – Agencies