Residential building in Beit Lahiya flattened by Israeli attack
Quite horrific scenes of people we are seeing inside this residential building, which was completely flattened by multiple air strikes earlier this morning carried out by the Israeli military.
A hundred people, including children, are estimated to be inside this building. These are local residents of the area – the owner of this residential building, relatives and in-laws who were forced into internal displacement.
They were from the Jabalia refugee camp and the vicinity and displaced after the Israeli military stormed the area. A witness told us some of the people who were killed this morning just arrived there yesterday evening.
According to what we hear from local residents and volunteers, it is hard to imagine that about 60 people remaining inside the building are going to make it. They are talking about the sheer level of destruction that is caused by the bombs that were dropped on the building.
No proper equipment and machinery are there to help remove the large pieces of concrete at the scene. These people are buried under the five-storey building that came down.
At least 62 people killed in Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya
Within the past half hour, the number of people killed in the Israeli attack on a residential building in Beit Lahiya has dramatically increased. Sixty-two people have been confirmed killed by al-Awda Hospital, a small facility struggling to operate in the north of Gaza.
The death toll is expected to increase as witnesses estimate about 100 people were in the building.
Director at North Gaza hospital issues distress call after deadly Israeli attack
Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, says dozens of wounded people have arrived at the facility and urged all surgeons to return there to treat them.
Many of the wounded may die because of the lack of resources at the hospital, he told Al Jazeera.
“The world must take action and not just watch the genocide in the Gaza Strip,” he added. “We call on the world to send specialised medical delegations to treat dozens of wounded people in the hospital.”
As we’ve been reporting, the Kamal Adwan Hospital is the main medical facility treating Palestinians in North Gaza and Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff there days ago, leaving only three doctors to care for the wounded.
Israel has attacked shelters in Gaza 39 times this month
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Israel’s military has attacked shelter centres in the Gaza Strip 39 times so far this month in a bid to “displace Palestinians and empty Gaza”.
The assaults have killed 188 people and wounded hundreds more, it said.
The Geneva-based group said Israel has targeted schools, hospitals, clinics and shelter centres in Gaza 65 times since the beginning of August. Most of the sites were located in Gaza City or northern Gaza, it said.
“The Israeli targeting has included shelling, direct shootings, killing forcibly displaced people and their families, or making them leave schools-turned-shelters under fire and/or with orders to relocate. These schools are then burned or otherwise destroyed by Israeli forces in order to render them uninhabitable and stop displaced people from returning to them,” the group added.
Residents and civil defence teams conduct search and rescue operations after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the UNRWA, in the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on October 27
