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By Hiba Yazbek

The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had attacked a missile belonging to the Palestinian militant organization Islamic Jihad, embedded in a shelter for displaced people in a “humanitarian zone” in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

This claim can be independently verified, however, armed teams have used Gazans as human shields by holding weapons and launching rockets from civilian areas. Local citizens may be contacted immediately.

The military said Friday that prior to the attack “several measures had been taken to mitigate the harm to the civilians involved. “

Israel maintains that it is wary of killing civilians, even when faced with Hamas’s tactic of operating in civilian centers. The Gaza government disputes this claim and the death toll in the enclave has risen. The government health says more than 37,000 people have been killed. in Israeli army operations. They did not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed in May after an Israeli airstrike hit a makeshift camp in southern Gaza. Israel said it destroyed a rocket launcher used by Hamas in an attack in central Israel hours earlier, which was nowhere near the camp. Hours later, Israel struck again, dropping two 250-pound bombs on transitional structures in the camp, hurling shrapnel in all directions and setting a fire.

Hiba Yazbek works for The Times from Jerusalem, Israel and the occupied West Bank. More information about Hiba Yazbek

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