At least 25 people were killed and 50 wounded at a shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza outside Rafah when Israeli forces shelled the ten camp on Friday, according to a report citing emergency workers and health officials.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that their relatives were killed in the strikes near an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital north of Rafah, and that Israeli forces opened fire once again as people came out of their tents.
Mona Ashour, whose husband was killed in the barrage, said the attack near the hospital began with a bright flash and an explosion.
"We were in our tent, and they hit with a 'sound bomb' near the Red Cross tents, and then my husband came out at the first sound," Ashour said while holding a young girl outside a hospital in nearby Khan Younis.
"And then they hit with the second one, which was a little closer to the entrance of the Red Cross," she added.
The ICRC said in a statement posted on X that "heavy-caliber projectiles" landed near its offices.
"The strike damaged the structure of the ICRC office, which is surrounded by hundreds of displaced civilians living in tents," it said.
The ICRC said the bombardment sent a flood of casualties to the hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces said "there is no indication that a strike was carried out by the IDF" inside the safe zone, the AP reported. The incident is under review, according to AP.
