Death toll in Beit Lahiya attack rises to 65
In Beit Lahiya, 65 people have been killed, 17 of them children below the age of 12. Al-Awda Hospital, a facility in the northern part of the Strip, still somehow operational and offering medical care, is unable to accommodate the large number of injuries.
More people are being pulled out of the rubble. They are in critical condition. They are severely bleeding or simply were crushed by the heavy weight of the large pieces of concrete that collapsed on their heads while they were sleeping.
There are other people who actually have gone missing, as some people are talking about other members of their families who do not exist any more. They are simply pulverised by the intensity of the explosion because we’re talking about a building that at some point was standing five storeys now turned into a pile of rubble.
Palestinians transport bodies ahead of their funeral in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, on October 29
Death toll rises to 77 from Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya
The death toll has increased with 77 people confirmed dead in the attack on a residential building in Beit Lahiya in the north of the Strip. The images we are seeing show that more bodies are being pulled from under the rubble, including women and children.
According to local journalists, some bodies are being buried immediately in makeshift graves because official burial places are too dangerous to access. One video showed the preparation of a mass burial site in a local market place.
Health Ministry says more medical staff needed after ‘ruthless massacre’ in north
Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza, has given a media conference on the situation across the enclave.
- Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is only equipped with two paediatric doctors and no surgeons. There are no medical supplies at the hospital.
- The number of victims and wounded inside Kamal Adwan Hospital is beyond 150 due to a “ruthless massacre” by Israeli forces in the north.
- He called on the World Health Organization to “immediately” deploy medical staff, particularly surgeons and ambulances, to northern Gaza.
- He called on Palestinians who have medical knowledge, especially surgeons, to immediately head to Kamal Adwan Hospital to help try and save lives.
- “We at the Health Ministry reiterate and at the same time appeal to the whole world to bring this genocidal war against our population all across the Strip to an end.”
Beit Lahiya attack death toll rises to 93
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said that the number of people killed in an airstrike early Tuesday in Beit Lahiya has risen to 93, adding that 25 children are among the dead. 40 are still missing after an Israeli attack on a residential building housing displaced people in Beit Lahiya.
Al-Thawabta told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that dozens of wounded were arriving at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which stopped working, and no one could treat them.
He added that the building Israel attacked housed 200 people. So far, 83 people have been buried.
