News Center- At least 141 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured in Israeli airstrikes on camps sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis, previously designated by Israel as a “safe zone”, on Saturday.

At least 141 Palestinians have been killed, 400 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on camps sheltering displaced people, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Defining that attack as a “brutal massacre”, the ministry said that the dead bodies had been taken to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Israeli military claimed in a statement that it acted based on “precise intelligence” to hit an area where “two senior Hamas terrorists” and additional fighters hid among civilians.

Call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Britain's new foreign secretary, David Lammy called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday. During talks with Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he said he would push for the release of all hostages as well as an increase in aid into Gaza. “The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. This war must end now, with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides.”