GAZA (Reuters): A United Nations envoy condemned an Israeli airstrike on a humanitarian zone in war-ravaged Gaza on Tuesday that the territory’s civil defense agency said killed 40 people.
“I strongly condemn today’s deadly airstrikes by Israel on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis 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 center, but Wennesland said international humanitarian law “must be upheld at all times,” while stressing that “civilians must never be used as human shields.”
