The Israeli army used massive bombs supplied by the US to strike a “humanitarian safe zone” in the southern Gaza Strip, burying entire families, a Geneva-based human rights group said on Tuesday.

At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday on a tent camp in Khan Younis in al-Mawasi area, which Israel has designated as a “humanitarian zone” for displaced civilians in Gaza.

Gaza’s civil defense service said the Israeli missiles caused craters as deep as nine meters (30 feet) in the area.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said Israeli warplanes dropped three US-made 2,000-pound (900 kg) MK-84 bombs on a tent camp in al-Mawasi at midnight as civilians were sleeping.
According to several media reports, the US transferred, in 2023 and 2024, more than 14,000 MK-84 bombs to Israel.

“The bombs caused craters as deep as several meters, burying about 20 tents with families inside,” the rights group said in a statement.
“Many tents, with entire families inside, were buried under the sand,” it added.
Euro-Med said international silence was encouraging Israel to commit more “crimes” against Palestinians.
“The silence and disregard for such unprecedented massacres in the history of wars…is shameful and constitutes a green light for Israel to continue committing them within a clear approach to mass killing and eliminating Palestinians,” it said.
“The US is a partner in this crime, as it supplies the Israeli army with weapons and destructive bombs despite knowing that they are used to kill hundreds of civilians every time,” it added.