Dozens of people have been killed in recent hours by an Israeli bombardment against several residential buildings in the besieged town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, according to the Hamas government. The EFE agency reports that the Islamist organization claims that there are at least 72 dead in this attack. It also reports that 24 other people were killed in 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 bombing of the enclave.
“The occupying army [israelí] “I knew that in these houses and residential buildings were dozens of displaced civilians, most of whom were children and women displaced from their neighborhoods,” the Hamas media office reported in a statement on Sunday. According to this text, during the two attacks on the camps of Nuseirat and Bureij (center), 60 other Gazans were injured, and some of the victims were transferred to Al Awda Hospital and Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. , in the city of Deir al. Balah, also in the central area.
In early October, Israeli troops resumed their offensive against northern Gaza for the third time, leading to a military encirclement and continued bombardments with the aim, according to military sources, of preventing Hamas from regrouping in this area. Since then, some 2,000 Palestinians have died – according to local figures – and the three main hospitals in the region, also attacked by Israel (Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and Al Awda), are partially functioning.
Added to this is the almost zero humanitarian aid which entered northern Gaza during the month of October and which could lead to an “imminent” famine, as various international organizations have warned in recent days, including the UN.
The Israeli conflict against Gaza since October 2023 has already caused more than 43,800 documented deaths – almost 70% of them women and children – and more than 103,600, although the Gaza Health Ministry warns that it is These are conservative figures, as thousands of victims could remain. under tons of rubble. Israeli attacks continue despite calls from the United Nations Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice to prevent possible genocide.
One of the first international reactions came from the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which condemned both the bombing of Beit Lahia and that which occurred on Saturday against a school which served as a shelter in the Al Shati displaced persons camp, and which left at least a dozen dead and more than 20 injured. “This is a flagrant violation of the norms of international law, in particular the Geneva Convention on the protection of human rights,” denounced ministry spokesperson Sufian al Qudá.
