Authorities in Gaza have denounced that the Israeli army committed a “terrible massacre” by bombing a residential building.
The death toll of a bombings executed at dawn on Tuesday by the Israeli army against a residential building in the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern United States. Gaza Striphas increased to over 90in addition to dozens of wounded and more than forty missing, according to Gaza authorities, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), amid the large-scale offensive launched during the last three weeks for the Israeli troops against this part of the enclave.
The Gaza authorities’ press service has denounced that “the Israeli occupation army is a… terrible slaughter by bombing a residential building’, and it is not excluded that the death toll will rise in the coming hours.
For example, in a statement published on his Telegram account, he stated that there were “more than 200 civilians” in the building at the time of the attack and emphasized that “the occupying army knew that there were people in the residential building.” dozens of displaced civiliansthe most of which were children and women“.
“This new crime involves the Israeli occupation plan for the healthcare system collapses in the north of the Gaza Strip and destroy the four hospitals that the country plans to decommission, along with banning the entry of medicines and medical supplies,” he insisted.
For this reason, he has asked the international community to transfer medical personnel, ambulances and other vehicles to northern Gaza “before it is too late” and reiterated that he must “put pressure on” the Israeli authorities to “to end the genocide”. and bloodshed in Gaza.”
For its part, Hamas has published a statement accusing Israel of committing “a horrible massacre” and insisting that “the majority” of the victims are women and children. The group has said the event was “the genocide and the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the criminal Zionist entity for more than a year.
Hamas has denounced that these events “take place in the face of official Arab impotence and international silence, which encourage the war criminal (Benjamin) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, to continue with his plans for genocide and displacement of the Palestinian people.”
The Israeli army has not yet commented on this attack, which was carried out in the middle of the new ground offensive launched almost three weeks ago against northern Gaza, which had its epicenter in the areas of Beit Lahia and Jabalia and which contributes to the blockade of the Gaza Strip. the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians trapped in the area.
Israel unleashed an offensive against Gaza following attacks on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, killing around 1,200 and kidnapping nearly 250. Israeli attacks have killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, with more than 750 deaths in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the hands of Israeli security forces and settler attacks.
Source: EITB

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