War in the Gaza Strip. Israeli attack on a former mosque in the Gaza Strip, dozens killed and wounded

After the attack, civilians, civil defense representatives and hospital workers worked in the dark, using cell phone flashlights, trying to extract the injured from the rubble, CNN reported. The recording described by this station shows the scattered bodies of the dead and the rescue participants screaming as they find more victims. The injured are carried on blankets to a nearby hospital, some covered in blood and dust.

A CNN contributor reported that displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the mosque under fire. Similar information was previously provided by witnesses cited by Reuters.

Defense Forces Israel however, they reported a “precise air strike” on the Hamas terrorist command center, located “in a building formerly serving as the Shuhad al-Aqsa mosque in Deir al-Balah.”

In this city, warplanes also attacked militants hiding in a command center in the area where a school was formerly located, the Times of Israel reported, citing the Israeli military.

On Saturday, Palestinian media reported heavy Israeli air bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Defense Forces previously announced that the targets were Hamas fighters based in the area of ​​the Jabaliya camp.

The war in the Gaza Strip broke out after Hamas' attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which nearly 1,200 people were killed and 251 kidnapped. According to the Gaza Strip's health ministry, more than 41,800 people have died in the Israeli intervention since then. Palestinians. The Palestinian territory was inhabited by over 2 million people before the war.