At least 73 people diedmostly minors and women, during Israeli bombing in a residential area of the city of Beit Lahiyain the north of the Gaza Strip, as reported by the Gazan authorities.
“The “Israeli” occupying army committed a terrible massacre in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the Gaza Strip, which cost the lives of 73 martyrs and dozens of wounded and missing. The majority are children and women,” the Hamas-controlled Gaza government reported.
The residential area was completely destroyed by the bombings, carried out while civilians were there, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, which warns that still Many people could be trapped under the rubble.
The Gaza government has once again denounced the “war of ethnic cleansing, eradication and extermination” of Israel in the Palestinian enclave which includes the “destruction of the health system of the northern governorate of the Gaza Strip”, where some 400,000 people currently live.
Israel “threatened hospitals and demanded that medical teams evacuate and leave them immediately.” In addition, it prevents the arrival of fuel, cuts communications and thus causes “a deep humanitarian crisis“.
In recent hours there has also been an Israeli drone attack. against the tents in which displaced populations are housed inside the Al Awda hospital facilities in Jabalia, also in the north of the Gaza Strip, and they also directly attacked an ambulance, WAFA reports.
However, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) assured that the figures released by the Gaza government “They are exaggerated and don’t fit“with the information available to the Israeli army.
The Israeli army also defended that its action was carried out with “exact weapons” which struck with “precision” against “a terrorist target“of Hamas.
Thus, Israeli troops urged the media to “be careful with information published by officials” of the Islamic Resistance Movement and reiterated that “the IDF acts precisely and selectively, doing everything possible to prevent attacks on people not involved.
The last official report Documented deaths stand at 42,519 and the number of injured has reached 99,637 since the start of the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. This campaign by the Jewish State is in retaliation for the attack by Gazan militiamen who broke into that day on Israeli territory and killed around 1,200 people.
