No less than 50 folks, a 3rd of them youngsters, have been killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya metropolis, authorities stated, as lethal bombardments hit the central and southern elements of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace on Sunday stated Israeli forces struck a multistorey residential constructing housing six forcibly displaced Palestinian households in Beit Lahiya.
The Ministry of Well being’s Director-Normal Munir al-Bursh instructed Al Jazeera that nearly 30 % of the victims of the Beit Lahiya “bloodbath” had been youngsters. He stated dozens of others had been wounded and plenty of extra are feared trapped underneath the rubble.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, instructed Al Jazeera that emergency employees had been unable to succeed in the location of the assault as a result of greater than 40-day-old Israeli siege of northern Gaza.
With reviews of a number of folks trapped underneath the rubble, the loss of life toll is more likely to rise within the coming hours.
There was no speedy remark from Israel, which has been conducting genocide within the Palestinian territory for greater than a 12 months.
It was not the primary time Israel had hit Beit Lahiya, leading to mass casualties. Final month, its forces bombed the Abu Nasr household residence within the metropolis, killing a minimum of 93 folks.
On Saturday, Israel additionally attacked the United Nations-run Abu Assi college within the Shati refugee camp, killing 10 Palestinians and injuring 20 others, together with girls and kids.
Final month, the Israeli military despatched tanks into Beit Lahiya and the close by cities of Beit Hanoon and Jabalia, the biggest of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps, in what it stated was a marketing campaign to battle Hamas.
Israel claimed the operation killed a whole lot of fighters in these three areas. However Palestinian authorities stated the assaults killed principally girls, youngsters and the aged, whereas additionally leaving tens of 1000’s ravenous to loss of life with no entry to meals, water and medical assist.
Earlier on Sunday, separate Israeli air raids killed a minimum of 17 folks within the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah, stated “explosions didn’t cease” in central elements of the Strip all through Sunday morning.
“At Al-Aqsa Hospital, there are 17 killed Palestinians within the morgue. Persons are ready to bury the lifeless, however there’s a scarcity of coffins throughout the Gaza Strip,” she stated.
“We noticed moms crying, bidding farewells to their family members,” Khoudary stated, including that lots of these killed, together with 4 youngsters, had been members of the identical household.
In southern Gaza’s Rafah metropolis, an Israeli bombing killed 5 Palestinians, in accordance with our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic.
The Well being Ministry stated on Sunday a minimum of 43,846 Palestinians have been confirmed killed in Israeli assaults since October 7, 2023.
In the meantime, Palestine’s Transport Minister Tariq Zourob instructed personal sector representatives throughout a gathering on the Palestinian embassy in Cairo that, because of Israeli assaults, the injury to move and communication infrastructure throughout the enclave had reached $4.8bn.
No less than 300,000 tonnes of “stable waste” are reportedly on the roads throughout the Gaza Strip, Zourob was quoted as saying by the Palestinian information company Wafa on Sunday.
