The Gaza Strip's civil defense agency said an Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday killed 40 people, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted a Hamas command center in the area.

An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants,

Gaza's civil defence agency said Tuesday that an Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone in the south of the Palestinian territory killed 40 people and wounded 60 others, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted a Hamas command centre in the area.

Israel’s military said it targeted senior Hamas militants in a command center. Authorities in the enclave said they were struggling to get to bodies after the attack.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza has killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others.

At least 19 bodies have arrived at hospitals from the designated humanitarian safe zone in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, that was hit by an Israeli strike overnight.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations accuses Israel of striking schools, humanitarian workers, and civilians.

Israel's army says it has killed a senior commander of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad in an attack inside a humanitarian zone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Ahmed Aish Salame al-Hashash was the head of the group's rocket and missile unit in the Rafah area of Gaza and responsible for firing rockets from an area designated as a humanitarian zone into Israeli territory,