Resistance denies Israeli claims: Mawasi massacre is ethnic cleansing

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen + Agencies
10 Sep 2024 11:17
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Palestinian factions condemn the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that the US administration and its president are partners with the occupation in the killing of the Palestinian people.

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A Palestinian Civil Defense team conducts a search and rescue operation after the Israeli occupation bombed tents with advanced missiles on September 10, 2024. (Khan Younis media)

Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas condemned the Israeli occupation for committing a horrific massacre overnight Monday in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli occupation warplanes targeted the tents of displaced Palestinians with heavy bombs.

In a statement, Hamas emphasized that "this brutal attack on an area declared as a safe zone by the occupation confirms the ongoing genocide carried out by the Nazi-like Israeli government against the Palestinian people."

It's horrifying. They are searching for their families lost beneath the sands in the tent massacre. pic.twitter.com/GxATj3To5G
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) September 10, 2024

It accused "Israel" of deliberately committing "heinous massacres with full support from the US administration, which is complicit in the aggression," showing no regard for international or humanitarian law or the resolutions calling for an end to the violence.

Hamas refuted the Israeli occupation forces' claims that members of the Resistance were present at the targeted site, calling them "blatant lies" through which the Israeli occupation seeks to justify its crimes.

It, once again, denied that "any of its members were among the civilian gatherings or using these sites for military purposes."

The movement further called on the international community, the United Nations, and political, humanitarian, and judicial institutions to "assume their responsibility in stopping this massacre," urging them to take necessary measures to "bring Zionist war criminals to the International Criminal Court and hold them accountable."

One of the craters left behind by bombs dropped by the Israeli occupation forces on the Palestinian displacement camp in Al-Mawasi, #KhanYounis.

According to the Gaza Civil Defense, each bomb dropped on Al-Mawasi weighs 2,000 pounds. https://t.co/zJ6eEfh2rz
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) September 10, 2024

Mujahideen Movement: US accountable for al-Mawasi massacre

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement condemned the crime in Khan Younis, which claimed the lives of more than 40 martyrs and wounded more than 65, in an unfinished toll, considering it a new crime in the war of extermination committed by the "fascist government of the entity using Western-American weapons" against the Palestinian people.

There were tents with refugees here. Look at the size of this crater! They dropped such powerful bombs on children sleeping in nylon tents! Dozens killed and many buried alive. This is absolutely demonic. pic.twitter.com/9iURetZfiS
— Hadi (@HadiNasrallah) September 10, 2024

It held the US administration and its president, Joe Biden, fully responsible for the "heinous crime" in Khan Younis "and all the crimes of the enemy against our people," considering it a key partner in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people as it continues to provide international cover and military support to the "Nazi Netanyahu government."

The movement further stressed that the Israeli occupation's justifications for the crime are "false and absurd as it continues to kill and terrorize as part of a series aimed at breaking the will of our people and displacing them from their land."