New Israeli airstrikes hit the designated humanitarian zone in Mawassi, west of Rafah, on Tuesday. killing at least 21 Palestinians and injuring dozens of others.

According to Palestinian health officials, the new Israeli strikes targeted tents with displaced families.

Videos from the scene show large numbers of people, among injured women , to have been killed and others to have since the last attack on a camp near Rafa. Residents are seen frantically tending to the bloodied victims and covering the lifeless bodies with blankets.

“Between them 13 women were killed. Israeli forces targeted yet another camp where most of the people were women and children.” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said.

“There are no hospitals in Rafa. All the injured and the bodies have been transferred to the International Medical Corps hospital. There are no ambulances.”

” It is devastating and horrible to be injured and unable to get from one place to another due to lack of fuel. For more than three weeks now, nothing has entered the Gaza Strip,” he said.

THE spokesman for the Palestinian president, Nabil Abu Rudeineh described the new Israeli strike on Rafah today Tuesday once again as a “massacre” and called for the implementation of the World Court’s ruling by Israel.

Israeli tanks arrived in the center of Rafah

Earlier, Reuters, citing eyewitnesses, reported that Israeli tanks are in the center of Rafah despite an order by the International Criminal Court in Tel Aviv to halt the military operation.

IDF troops continued to operate in the Rafah area, the Israeli military said in a statement on Tuesday.

Israel hit Rafah with airstrikes and tank fire on Tuesday, continuing its assault on the southern Gaza city despite international condemnation of an attack on camps for the displaced, killing at least 45 people.