At least 55 people killed in Israeli bombing against a residential building in the town of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, where the army has maintained an intense military siege for about a month, as reported by Gaza authorities.
They took refuge in the building “hundreds of civilians displaced”“, according to the authorities, who denounced the fact that the Israeli siege against the three main hospitals in northern Gaza is now preventing the treatment of dozens of wounded.
Furthermore, Palestinian media reported shortly after an air attack against the area around Kamal Adwan hospital, also in Beit Lahia, where some people affected by the bombings had already arrived.
The Israeli army did not comment on the topicwhile a military spokesperson consulted by the Efe agency assured that they needed the precise coordinates of the location of the attack to be able to search for information about it.
The Palestinian News Agency Wafa assured that there is still dozens of people in the rubble of the buildingand at least 20 seriously injured people have so far reached Kamal Adwan.
“The work system of the Civil Defense has been completely dismantled by the Israeli aggression in northern Gaza, the arrest of its workers and the displacement of others,” denounced the spokesperson for the emergency service, Mahmud Basal, who stressed that they do not allow receiving warnings regarding this attack in Beit Lahia.
The videos broadcast after the “massacre” They show dozens of bodies wrapped in blankets located next to the tangle of rubble from the attacked building.
For 25 days, Israel maintains military siege against northern Gazain which he combined an intense bombing campaign with a ground incursion, which left more than a thousand dead.
Also overnight, two other attacks on homes in Beit Lahia killed at least seven people, reported Wafa, which also reported a fire caused by the army – without specifying whether it was troops or of a projectile – against the Al Fajoura school, linked to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
“In the Jabalia area, in the Gaza Strip (north), the ground troops, in cooperation with the air force, They eliminated around 40 militiamen during ground and air attacks”, reported this morning a military communiqué on their activities in the north, in which they made no mention of the attack in the neighboring town of Beit Lahia.
Additionally, the armed forces killed an unknown number of militants in central Gaza who “intended to plant explosives near troops.”
Since the start of the war on October 7, 43,020 Palestinians died in a devastated Gaza Strip – mostly women and children – and 101,110 others were injured, according to the Hamas-run enclave’s health ministry.
