More than 90 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on residential building in northern Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 93 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to local authorities.
Israeli fighter jets hit a 5-story building in the city as more than 200 people were inside, Gaza’s government media office said.
“At least 93 people were killed, scores injured while over 40 are still missing,” it added in a statement.
According to the media office, the majority of the people inside the building were women and children displaced from their areas by Israeli attacks.
“This new crime comes in parallel with the occupation’s plan to destroy the health system in northern Gaza and put four hospitals there out of service in addition to preventing the entry of medicines and medical supplies,” it said.
According to witnesses, dozens of dead bodies and injured people were recovered from under the rubble of the destroyed building by local residents.
“Medics are unable to access the area due to Israeli attacks,” one of the witnesses said.
Marwan Al-Hams, the director of field hospitals in Gaza, said the limited number of medics in northern Gaza made it impossible to deal with the high number of casualties from the attack.
He appealed to the international community to dispatch medical teams to provide help to the injured people in northern Gaza.
The Israeli army has continued a deadly onslaught in northern Gaza since Oct. 5 amid a suffocating siege on the area. Palestinians accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in northern Gaza since the offensive began, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense Service.
The onslaught is the latest episode in Israel’s war on Gaza in which Israel has killed more than 43,000 people, mostly women and children, according to local health authorities.
The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory.
Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.
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