Not less than 50 individuals, a 3rd of them kids, have been killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya metropolis, authorities mentioned, as lethal bombardments hit the central and southern elements of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace on Sunday mentioned Israeli forces struck a multistorey residential constructing housing six forcibly displaced Palestinian households in Beit Lahiya.
The Ministry of Well being’s Director-Basic Munir al-Bursh informed Al Jazeera that nearly 30 % of the victims of the Beit Lahiya “massacre” have been kids. He mentioned dozens of others have been wounded and plenty of extra are feared trapped below the rubble.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, informed Al Jazeera that emergency employees have been unable to succeed in the location of the assault because of the greater than 40-day-old Israeli siege of northern Gaza.
With stories of a number of individuals trapped below the rubble, the dying toll is prone to rise within the coming hours.
There was no rapid 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 no less than 93 individuals.
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 mentioned was a marketing campaign to struggle Hamas.
Israel claimed the operation killed a whole lot of fighters in these three areas. However Palestinian authorities mentioned the assaults killed largely girls, kids and the aged, whereas additionally leaving tens of hundreds ravenous to dying with no entry to meals, water and medical assist.
Earlier on Sunday, separate Israeli air raids killed no less than 17 individuals within the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah, mentioned “explosions did not stop” in central elements of the Strip all through Sunday morning.
“At Al-Aqsa Hospital, there are 17 killed Palestinians in the morgue. People are waiting to bury the dead, but there is a shortage of coffins across the Gaza Strip,” she mentioned.
“We saw mothers crying, bidding farewells to their loved ones,” Khoudary mentioned, including that lots of these killed, together with 4 kids, have 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 mentioned on Sunday no less than 43,846 Palestinians have been confirmed killed in Israeli assaults since October 7, 2023.
In the meantime, Palestine’s Transport Minister Tariq Zourob informed personal sector representatives throughout a gathering on the Palestinian embassy in Cairo that, because of Israeli assaults, the harm to move and communication infrastructure throughout the enclave had reached $4.8bn.
Not less than 300,000 tonnes of “solid waste” are reportedly on the roads throughout the Gaza Strip, Zourob was quoted as saying by the Palestinian information company Wafa on Sunday.
