Fatah says far-right Israeli government ‘fully responsible’ for Beit Lahiya ‘massacre’
Fatah has issued a statement saying it holds “the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the bloody massacre” in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, Wafa reports.
Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority and has partial administrative power in the occupied West Bank, called on “the world” to help “stop the systematic Israeli war of extermination” in Gaza, Wafa reported, adding it was a Zionist conspiracy to displace Palestinians from their land.
“Palestinian people are being subjected to an organised war of extermination led by the far-right government in Israel with the utmost criminality and hatred,” Fatah added.
Translation: Pictures show a small part of the massacre in the Beit Lahiya project in light of the occupation’s cutting off of communications and the internet in the northern Gaza Strip.
Rescue under way after Israeli attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced
At least nine people have been killed in an Israeli missile attack on the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Amjad Hajaj, a resident at the camp, said the missile hit a school in the camp housing many displaced people on Saturday.
“This building, which consists of three floors, was targeted by a very powerful missile which destroyed all three floors. People were pulled out in pieces,” he told Al Jazeera. “The missile was extremely devastating and the explosion deafening,” he said.
“Many children were injured by the shrapnel from this missile that hit the school.”
Rescuers still pulling bodies out of debris in Beit Lahiya
In Beit Lahiya, civil defence teams are still trying to pull bodies out of the rubble. The Israelis targeted a whole neighbourhood yesterday in one of the deadliest nights for the people there in northern Gaza. Seventy-three bodies were transferred to the hospital morgue.
We just received news that the teams were able to rescue a baby girl. The attack is part of the ongoing Israeli siege of northern Gaza, and the military’s attempt to clear the area of about 400,000 residents. Many Palestinians are refusing to leave because they believe they’ll be targeted wherever they go.
People there have endured 16 days without food, water or medicine during the Israeli army assault, which is also focusing on the Jabalia refugee camp.
The World Health Organization says there was also an attack on the Indonesian Hospital last night in which 40 patients and medical staff were injured. The hospital generator was hit, leaving it without electricity. That resulted in the death of two patients who were in critical condition.
Gaza civil defence says bodies recovered in Rafah
Two bodies have been recovered in the Khirbet al-Adas area of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, according to a civil defence statement. One injured person was also found, it said. They were hit by a rocket launched by an Israeli drone, it said.
Israeli forces bomb Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza
The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya is under Israeli forces’ attack as heavy bombardment continues across northern Gaza. Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director, said in a statement Israeli strikes damaged the hospital’s water tanks and electricity grid, severely disrupting medical services.
The area surrounding the hospital has been subjected to intense bombing and gunfire for several hours, placing patients and medical staff in danger, he added.
This assault on the hospital is part of a broader campaign of relentless air and artillery strikes that have pummelled northern Gaza for 16 days.
