It stretched from a bakery to a crowded market ... nine deaths in a fire in Gaza

Nine Palestinians - including four children and three women - died and dozens of others were wounded, as a result of a huge fire that broke out in the Nusseirat refugee camp market in the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 14 surgeons were seriously injured, adding that ambulance and emergency crews are continuing their work at the site of the fire.

Witnesses said that they heard an explosion originating from the bakery in the Nusseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, before a fire ravaged the bakery and spread quickly to nearby stores, factories and cars parked in the street.

Witnesses added that significant material damage occurred in the market, which was then crowded with shoppers, which caused heavy losses to the shop owners.

The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip said that the fire was caused by a gas leak inside a bakery, which caused a number of cooking gas cylinders to explode.

Many civilians rushed to help the firefighters extinguish the flames. Smoke from the refugee camp was visible from miles away.

Mohamed Mahmoud, 38, said that, in cooperation with the people, firefighters were able to finally extinguish the fire after more than three hours.

The authorities in Gaza said that they would provide financial aid to the injured and the families of the dead.

And live in the Gaza Strip - which is run by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - about two million people amid an Israeli blockade that has continued since 2006.

Black out
Mahmoud Zaqout (28 years) tells an Anatolia correspondent that he has lived in the camp since his birth, and throughout the years of his life he did not see people wearing black and sadness, as he witnessed on this difficult day whose minutes passed heavy on the people of the camp and all the residents of the Gaza Strip, who followed The painful accident during the past hours.

Close to the spot, the merchant Abu Muhammad al-Nuri was puzzled after his shop was completely burned down. He recounts that his loss today is great, as his shop - which specializes in selling women's clothes, and includes goods worth more than $ 20 thousand - is completely destroyed and has become a trace after an eye.

Al-Nouri (45 years old) continues, "Only God's care saved me from this accident. Had it not been for the fate that kept me away from the accident site one hour before the fire broke out, I would now be among the injured or dead."

He explains that his son and two employees managed to escape from the shop as soon as they heard the sounds of several severe explosions, as a result of the explosion of tanks and pipes containing fuel and gas.

Reem Muhanna says that she was at risk of certain death if she had not moved from a store where all of the injured were injured, minutes before the fire broke out, as she heard the sounds of explosions.

For his part, Ibrahim Abu Nasser, 37, shows that he was going with three of his children next to a bakery that was badly affected by the accident, when he heard the first explosion that threw him and his children on the ground, and caused them different wounds in their bodies.

Abu Nasser notes that he picked up his youngest child, Ahmed (7 years), and ran without him - due to the severity of the explosion and fire - to his two other children who were screaming with fear for a long time, until one of the policemen transported them.

While in the area, a young man was surprised that his father's car was in the place, and he saw the fire eating it from the inside, and at that moment he got mad at thinking that his father was inside, as he rushed towards it and tried to open the door, which was like a flame block, explaining that he did not calm down until he saw his father Outside the car helps to extinguish the fire.