Israel's Weekend Attack In Gaza Kills 17 One Family Of Saudagar

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JAKARTA - It was reported that 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on the city of Zawayda in Gaza, Saturday, August 17.

Most of the people killed came from the same family and they included eight children and four women, according to local health officials.

The Israeli military said it was aware of reports of the attack and was investigating.

They fell asleep in their beds, children and babies, then three missiles targeted their place, said Abu Ahmed Hassan, the victim's neighbor.

The owner of the house is called a famous merchant. "There is absolutely no military activity here," he said.

Israeli military spokesman ordered people in central Gaza, including in the nearby Maghazi district of Zawayda, to flee to the designated humanitarian zone.

On Friday, August 16, two areas of the southern city of Khan Younis, which Israel had previously designated as a humanitarian zone, were ordered to evacuate.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) said the order to evacuate on Friday, which also includes other areas outside the humanitarian zone, had an impact on some 170,000 refugees.

"This is one of the largest evacuation orders affecting the zone to date and this is shrinking the size of the so-called humanitarian area' to about 41 square kilometers, or 11 percent of the total Gaza Strip region," the OCHA said.