Palestinians mourn members of the Bayuk family, killed in an Israeli strike on their home, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 10, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Credit: Bashar Taleb/AFP)
A United Nations envoy condemned an Israeli air strike on a humanitarian zone in war-ravaged Gaza on Tuesday that the territory's civil defense agency said killed 40 people.
"I strongly condemn today's deadly air strikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis where displaced people were sheltering," the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, said in a statement.
Israel said it targeted a Hamas command center, but Wennesland said international humanitarian law "must be upheld at all times" while stressing that "civilians must never be used as human shields."
A United Nations envoy condemned an Israeli air strike on a humanitarian zone in war-ravaged Gaza on Tuesday that the territory's civil defense agency said killed 40 people.
"I strongly condemn today's deadly air strikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis where displaced people were sheltering," the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, said in a statement.
Israel said it targeted a Hamas command center, but Wennesland said international humanitarian law "must be upheld at all times" while stressing that "civilians must never be used as human shields."
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