Residents of the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza returned to their neighborhoods to find only concrete blocks where their homes once stood.
“These houses are destroyed. Our house was bombed,” Abu Rami Abu al-Ais said Monday, standing among the rubble. “There is no safe place in the Gaza Strip. »
On Sunday evening, at least three houses in the camp were hit by Israeli airstrikes, which killed more than 100 people, according to Tel Aviv Tribune correspondents.
Gaza officials said seven families were among the victims.
Israel says it issues evacuation orders and warnings so civilians can get to safety before military attacks, but Zeyad Awad said there was no warning before the strike.
“What should we do? We are civilians, living in peace and wanting only safety and security, and yet we are suddenly hit by Israeli warplanes without any warning,” he said.
The Israeli military said it was “looking into the incident.”
The Maghazi refugee camp is one of several camps in Gaza and was established in 1949, according to the United Nations, to house refugees forced to flee the Palestinian territories occupied during the creation of Israel the previous year.
Many of those who fled Maghazi after Sunday’s strikes were displaced again after previously escaping attacks in northern Gaza.
