A United Nations envoy condemned an Israeli air strike on a humanitarian zone in besieged Gaza that the territory’s civil defence agency said killed 40 people, AFP reports.
“I strongly condemn today’s deadly air strikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis where displaced people were sheltering,” the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, said in a statement.
Israel said it targeted a Hamas command centre, but Wennesland said international humanitarian law “must be upheld at all times”, while stressing that “civilians must never be used as human shields”.