Multiple Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians
Dozens of people are missing after an Israeli air strike hit a five-story residential building in Beit Lahiya in Gaza. Omar Abdel Aaal, one of many people fleeing the scene on foot, said, “They bombarded the houses and completely destroyed Beit Lahiya”.
Mahmud Bassal, a Civil Defence spokesman, said, “The chances of rescuing more wounded are decreasing because of the continuous shooting and artillery shelling.” In other strikes across the embattled enclave, Bassal said 15 people were killed in central Gaza while five others were killed in the southern city of Rafah.
In the southern Khan Younis area, the Civil Defence agency said an Israeli drone targeted a group of unarmed people trying to secure aid, killing six Palestinians.
Gaza hospital director says at least 30 killed in Beit Lahiya attack
An Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, killed at least 30 people, the director of a hospital in the city says. Hussam Abu Safia, of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said there were dozens of wounded and others still buried in the debris. The exact death toll remains unclear.
The Health Ministry’s director-general, Munir al-Bursh, told Al Jazeera earlier that 30 percent of the victims of the Beit Lahiya “massacre” were children.
Israel’s latest massacre in Beit Lahiya kills at least 50
There’s been no respite for the people of Gaza more than 400 days into Israel’s bombardment. As we’ve been reporting, at least 50 Palestinians have been killed in an attack on a multistorey building housing forcibly displaced people in northern Beit Lahiya.
Several remain trapped under rubble as paramedics can’t reach the area. Israeli forces have been preventing Civil Defence crews, medics and aid from entering the north since last month.
This is the same attack, but shows hospital counts go to the official death toll, while this report adds the presumed dead.
Still nothing on CNN about this massacre.
Israeli forces bomb ‘safe-zone’ in southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least four people were killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces bombed the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi. The victims included two children.
The target of the attack was a tent housing displaced people, AJA reported. The attack comes after a day of heavy Israeli bombardment that killed at least 111 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
