Israel launches Nazi-style attack on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

JERUSALEM, September 2.—The Israeli occupation forces destroyed a mosque and two housing blocks today, leaving hundreds of Palestinian homeless and wounding various others, during an intense Nazi-style operation in Khan Yunes, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

The troops, supported by tanks and military vehicles, entered the Khan Yunes refugee camp and the Al-Namwasi neighborhood, where they immediately fired missiles on civilian buildings and a mosque, Reuters reports.

One of the housing blocks caught fire and the mosque was destroyed, while the aggressors moved on to two recently constructed five-story buildings, part of an Australian project, and evacuated the 30-plus families living there.

The residents were taken to the patio of a school and in a matter of seconds their houses were destroyed, while troops opened fire on the local Nasser hospital, which suffered severe damage, including the destruction of a lab.

"The children were crying and screaming... The army didn’t give us any opportunity to grab anything, they just told us to get out," testified Ali Khalaf-Allah, a tenant in one of the buildings.

Explosives experts then placed charges in the two buildings and demolished them.

The Murbarak hospital likewise suffered severe damage due to the large-scale attack in which ambulances were not allowed to attend to the wounded, as soldiers blocked their access.