Several killed in Israeli attack on UN shelter housing 800 in southern Gaza
Al Jazeera
UNRWA official fears ‘mass casualties’ after Israeli tank shelling on one of its facilities in Khan Younis.
Several people have been killed after a United Nations shelter in Gaza‘s southern city of Khan Younis was shelled by Israeli forces, the Gaza head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
“Two tank rounds hit building that shelters 800 people – reports now 9 dead and 75 injured,” Thomas White, the Gaza director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said on the social media platform X.
In a separate post earlier on Wednesday, White said the training centre sheltering displaced families had been set ablaze.
The number of victims is expected to rise, as the UN official said the incident had likely caused “mass casualties”.
