GAZA (National Times) Picture from the site of the attack are beginning to come in. They show a huge search and rescue effort taking place in the dark. It is now just before 4am in Gaza.

Search and rescue teams have told local media that they have been struggling to reach victims who might have been buried.

The Reuters news agency has quoted local residents of Al-Mawasi as saying that ambulances were racing back and forth from the area hit in the attack, to a nearby hospital, while Israeli jets could still be heard overhead.
Residents and medics at the tent encampment in the Al-Mawasi area, which is designated as a humanitarian zone, have said it was struck by at least four missiles. The camp is crowded with displaced Palestinians who have fled from elsewhere in the enclave.

The Gaza civil emergency service said at least 20 tents caught on fire, and missiles caused craters as deep as nine meters.

Dozens of Palestinians have reportedly been killed, with many more wounded.

“Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It looks like a new Israeli massacre,” a Gaza civil emergency official said.

The Israeli military said it “struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control center embedded inside the Humanitarian Area in Khan Younis.”