Gaza: Israeli army burns displacement camp and leaves 800 people homeless

The Israeli army burned a displacement camp at the Shujaiya junction east of Gaza City on Sunday evening, using quadcopter drones, displacing 200 families comprising over 800 people, according to a statement by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in the Strip.

The Israeli army burned a displacement camp at the Shujaiya junction east of Gaza City on Sunday evening, displacing 200 Palestinian families comprising over 800 people, most of them women, children, the elderly, and the sick. This came in a statement by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in the Gaza Strip, which said that quadcopter drones at 8:00 PM set the entire camp on fire. The ministry described the attack as a "new brutal crime" and a "clear continuation of the genocide and ethnic cleansing war" waged by the Israeli occupation army against Palestinians in Gaza. It noted that the flames consumed the tents of the displaced and their meager belongings, causing a severe state of panic, fear, and terror among the safe families, who found themselves once again homeless in the open with no shelter or alternative. The ministry considered what happened a "clear entrenchment of the policy of forced displacement and continuous migration" and a "complete war crime and crime against humanity, representing a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions."