Dozens of people have been killed in recent hours by an Israeli bombardment against several residential buildings in the besieged city of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas Government. The EFE agency reports that the Islamist organization says that there are at least 72 dead in this attack. It also reports that another 24 people have been killed by another attack by the Israeli army in the Nuseirat and Bureij camps.
The building, according to Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Basal, was filled with people previously displaced from Jabalia by Israeli bombings on the enclave.
“The (Israeli) occupation army knew that dozens of displaced civilians were in those houses and residential buildings, most of whom were children and women displaced from their neighborhoods,” the Hamas Media Office reported this Sunday in a statement. release. According to this text, in the two attacks against the Nuseirat and Bureij camps (center), another 60 Gazans have been injured, and some of the victims have been transferred to Al Awda Hospital and Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in the city of Deir al Balah, also in the central area.
At the beginning of October, Israeli troops resumed their offensive, for the third time, against northern Gaza, leading to a military encirclement and continuous bombing with the objective, according to military sources, of preventing Hamas from regrouping in that area. Since then, some 2,000 Palestinians have died – according to local figures – and the three main hospitals in the area, which have also been attacked by Israel (Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and Al Awda) are partially functioning.
Added to this is the virtually zero humanitarian aid that has entered northern Gaza during the month of October and which could lead to an “imminent” famine, as different international organizations, including the UN, have warned in recent days.
The Israeli conflict against Gaza since October 2023 has already caused more than 43,800 documented deaths – about 70% of them women and children – and more than 103,600, although the Gaza Ministry of Health warns that these are conservative figures, since thousands of victims may remain under tons of rubble. Israel’s attacks continue despite calls from the United Nations Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice for action to prevent possible genocide.
One of the first international reactions has come from the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, which has condemned both the bombing of Beit Lahia and that which occurred on Saturday against a school that served as a shelter in the Al Shati displaced persons camp, and which left at least one dozens dead and more than 20 injured. “This is a flagrant violation of the norms of international law, especially the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Human Rights,” denounced the Ministry’s spokesperson, Sufian al Qudá.
Source: www.eldiario.es
