Israel bombs residential building in north Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, killing 50

Civil defence spokesperson says rescue workers are incapable to scope the tract of the onslaught owed to the Israeli siege.

At slightest 50 people, a 3rd of them children, person been killed successful an Israeli onslaught successful bluish Gaza’s Beit Lahiya city, authorities said, arsenic deadly bombardments deed the cardinal and confederate parts of the besieged Palestinian territory.

Gaza’s Government Media Office connected Sunday said Israeli forces struck a multistorey residential gathering lodging six forcibly displaced Palestinian families successful Beit Lahiya.

The Ministry of Health’s Director-General Munir al-Bursh told Al Jazeera that astir 30 percent of the victims of the Beit Lahiya “massacre” were children. He said dozens of others were wounded and galore much are feared trapped nether the rubble.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence successful Gaza, told Al Jazeera that exigency workers were incapable to scope the tract of the onslaught owed to the much than 40-day-old Israeli siege of bluish Gaza.

There was nary contiguous remark from Israel, which has been conducting genocide successful the Palestinian territory for much than a year.

It was not the archetypal clip Israel had deed Beit Lahiya, resulting successful wide casualties. Last month, its forces bombed the Abu Nasr household residence successful the city, killing astatine slightest 93 people.

On Saturday, Israel besides attacked the United Nations-run Abu Assi schoolhouse successful the Shati exile camp, killing 10 Palestinians and injuring 20 others, including women and children.

The aftermath of an Israeli onslaught connected the Bureij exile campy successful cardinal Gaza [Eyad Baba/AFP]

Last month, the Israeli service sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the adjacent towns of Beit Hanoon and Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s 8 historical exile camps, successful what it said was a run to combat Hamas.

Israel claimed the cognition killed hundreds of fighters successful those 3 areas. But Palestinian authorities said the attacks killed mostly women, children and the elderly, portion besides leaving tens of thousands starving to death with nary entree to food, h2o and aesculapian help.

Earlier connected Sunday, abstracted Israeli aerial raids killed astatine slightest 17 radical successful the Nuseirat and Bureij exile camps successful cardinal Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said “explosions did not stop” successful cardinal parts of the Strip passim Sunday morning.

“At Al-Aqsa Hospital, determination are 17 killed Palestinians successful the morgue. People are waiting to hide the dead, but determination is simply a shortage of coffins crossed the Gaza Strip,” she said.

“We saw mothers crying, bidding farewells to their loved ones,” Khoudary said, adding that galore of those killed, including 4 children, were members of the aforesaid family.

A Palestinian pistillate reacts arsenic victims of an Israeli onslaught are transported to Al-Aqsa Hospital successful Deir el-Balah successful the cardinal Gaza Strip [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

In confederate Gaza’s Rafah city, an Israeli bombing killed 5 Palestinians, according to our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Health Ministry said connected Sunday astatine slightest 43,846 Palestinians person been confirmed killed successful Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.

Meanwhile, Palestine’s Transport Minister Tariq Zourob told backstage assemblage representatives during a gathering astatine the Palestinian embassy successful Cairo that, arsenic a effect of Israeli attacks, the harm to transport and connection infrastructure crossed the enclave had reached $4.8bn.

At slightest 300,000 tonnes of “solid waste” are reportedly connected the roads crossed the Gaza Strip, Zourob was quoted arsenic saying by the Palestinian quality bureau Wafa connected Sunday.

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