Emergency services said 20 tents caught fire in attack that Israel said targeted a Hamas command centre
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At least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on a tent encampment designated as a humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, Gaza officials said early on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military said was an attack on a Hamas command centre.
Gaza civil defence officials told Agence France-Presse and the BBC that as well as the 40 people killed in the attack inside the Al-Mawasi camp, a further 60 were injured and transferred to local hospitals.