The number of people killed in the air attack on Al Mevasi, a region in the Gaza Strip that the Israeli army declared as a safe zone in May, increased to 71 and the number of people injured increased to 289.
The Israeli army said that Hamas commander Mohammed Deif was targeted in the attack. Abu Zuhri, one of Hamas’s senior officials, denied this statement and said that all of those who lost their lives were civilians and that this attack showed that Israel did not want to reach a ceasefire agreement.