At least 73 killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya

Attack levels a multistorey residential building, with galore radical trapped nether the rubble and rescue efforts hampered.

An Israeli aerial attack has killed astatine slightest 73 Palestinians, including women and children, successful Beit Lahiya successful the bluish Gaza Strip, the authorities said, describing it arsenic a “massacre”.

The overnight onslaught deed respective houses and a multistorey residential building, known arsenic the Beit Lahiya Project, the Gaza Government Media Office said, arsenic galore radical remained trapped nether the rubble connected Sunday.

Rescue efforts person been hampered by a communications blackout and roadworthy obstructions successful the northbound of the enclave, wherever a 16-day Israeli subject siege has chopped disconnected entree to food, water, medicine and indispensable services for residents.

Beit Lahiya is simply a metropolis located successful the acold northbound of the Gaza Strip adjacent to Jabalia and Beit Hanoon. All 3 cities are severely affected by the Israeli violative that has besides resulted successful severed telephone and net access.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah successful cardinal Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said “the grade of the brutality of the latest attack” successful Beit Lahiya keeps unfolding, “with galore radical inactive buried nether monolithic piles of rubble”.

“A witnesser from the country described the monolithic detonation resulting from aggregate aerial strikes shaking the precise foundations of the surrounding areas,” helium said.

Mahmoud said ample chunks of factual person blocked the way to the bombed-out areas, making it hard for paramedics and Palestinian Civil Defence members to behaviour rescue missions successful Beit Lahiya, resulting successful much casualties, the bulk of them women and children and elderly.

“More than fractional of the radical who were killed are, successful fact, radical who were forced to evacuate from Jabalia and different parts” of bluish Gaza nether Israeli siege, helium noted.

Among those killed successful the onslaught successful Beit Lahiya were astatine slightest 10 relatives of Al Jazeera Arabic’s analogous Anas al-Sharif.

“Today, portion covering the massacre by Israeli concern forces successful [Beit Lahiya], I was shocked to observe that 1 of the homes targeted successful the airstrike belonged to my cousin,” al-Sharif wrote successful a station connected X.

An earlier Israeli subject onslaught successful Jabalia killed astatine slightest 33 Palestinians. Residents and medics said Israeli forces person been tightening their siege connected the Jabalia exile camp, the largest of the enclave’s 8 historical camps.

Jabalia residents said Israeli forces besieged respective shelters lodging displaced families earlier they stormed them and detained respective men. Footage connected societal media showed dozens of Palestinian men sitting connected the crushed adjacent to a tank, portion others were led by a worker to a gathering site.

The onslaught successful Beit Lahiya came aft Gaza wellness officials said 3 partially functioning hospitals treating severely wounded patients and sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians successful bluish Gaza were present retired of work aft coming nether aggravated Israeli fire.

Israeli forces bombed al-Awda Hospital successful Jabalia aboriginal connected Saturday, and person besides shelled Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals successful Beit Lahiya implicit the past fewer hours, Al Jazeera correspondents reported.

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