Haaretz reported that the bodies of some Palestinian martyrs who died in an Israeli raid on the southern Gaza Strip were evaporated due to the intensity of the explosions and the lack of shelters to protect residents from the continuous bombardment.

Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN branch for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in Gaza, told the left-wing Israeli newspaper, describing what happened in the Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip that the scene looked like another Nagasaki, referring to the Japanese city that the United States bombed with an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 at the end of World War II.

The UN official was talking about the air strikes launched by the Israeli army on the fourth of December on the displaced persons camp in the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 23 Palestinians – including 4 children and two women, one of whom is pregnant – and the destruction of 21 tents, according to the newspaper.

“I counted the bodies, but there are dead people whose bodies have simply evaporated,” Petroulos said. “10 or 20 people who were inside the tents have disappeared.”

“I was in the hospital after the bombing, it looked like a slaughterhouse, there was blood everywhere.”

Haaretz reported that a family was buried in the sand that covered their tent from the same shelling.