At least 66 Gazans were killed and more than a hundred injured this Thursday in the Israeli bombing of a residential building near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the town of Beit Lahia, in the north of Gaza, medical sources confirmed.
Among the dead are many women and children, in an attack described by the Palestinian news agency Wafa as a “horrible massacre”, amid fears that bodies may still remain under the rubble as rescue teams cannot reach the destroyed houses.
It is Kamal Adwan’s medical staff who pull the victims out of the rubble with their own hands due to the lack of equipment and rescue personnel, according to a press release from the center, in which they also denounce that they can only provide first aid due to lack of emergency equipment and personnel. the lack of specialized surgeons.
“The hospital will become a mass grave if there is no urgent intervention from international institutions and if medical supplies are not introduced,” said its director, Hosam Abu Safiya.
The center was attacked by Israeli troops in October and the army arrested more than 40 patients and medical staff, in addition to bombing its oxygen generators.
This morning’s attack in Beit Lahia came hours after another Israeli bombardment, which left 22 people dead, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, about three kilometers northwest of Gaza City.
The Israeli offensive in the north of the enclave, resumed at the beginning of October, left more than 2,000 dead and some 6,000 injured, according to Palestinian sources. The army assures that its troops are trying to prevent, for the third time, Hamas militiamen from regrouping in this area, currently under siege and where the majority of the population has been displaced towards the south.
With the recent deaths, the total death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 44,000 since the start of the war in the enclave in October 2023, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry.
