The assault is without doubt one of the deadliest of the practically three-month-long battle.
Greater than 100 individuals have been killed in Israeli air raids in a single day in central Gaza.
A minimum of 70 individuals had been killed in strikes in central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being stated late on Sunday. Assaults on the Bureij refugee camp noticed the variety of casualties rise to greater than 100.
Well being Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra stated the dying toll on the Maghazi refugee camp was more likely to rise.
“What is happening at the Maghazi camp is a massacre that is being committed on a crowded residential square,” he stated.
Our bodies have been piling up at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Dozens extra are reported to be injured, and several other homes have been destroyed within the assault. Households have been digging via the rubble in an try to seek out survivors.
The bombs fell on properties and buildings, reported Hani Mahmoud from Rafah in southern Gaza, destroying neighbourhoods and infrastructure, akin to roads main out and in of the refugee camps.
With the Bureij refugee camp additionally pounded in a single day, some 100 individuals have been killed within the final 12 hours, he added. The overwhelming majority of the victims are ladies and kids.
“We were all targeted,” stated Ahmad Turokmani, who misplaced a number of members of the family, together with his daughter and grandson. “There is no safe place in Gaza anyway.”
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, stated the Maghazi refugee camp is without doubt one of the most densely populated areas in the course of the Gaza Strip.
He stated it was one of many locations the Israeli army had beforehand informed the Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate to. Now the camp has been “completely flattened”, he stated.
“The vast majority of the casualties right now have been among civilians, including [a] two weeks [old] baby that has been killed in cold blood in this genocide,” stated Azzoum.
He in contrast the assault with one on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza final week, by which at the very least 90 individuals had been killed.
The Maghazi camp was attacked final month as properly when at the very least 50 Palestinians had been killed.
Azzoum stated the camp’s surrounding areas had been subjected to intense Israeli shelling within the final couple of days.
The closest hospital to the camp is Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital however well being amenities have been rendered non-functional throughout Gaza as Israel continues to bombard the territory for a 3rd month, killing greater than 20,400 Palestinians since October 7 and displacing greater than 80 p.c of the two.3 million individuals who stay there.
“The entire medical care system in Gaza Strip is deteriorating and [is] on the edge of collapse,” stated Azzoum.
Hamas known as the air assault on the Maghazi camp “a horrific massacre” and stated it was “a new war crime”.
Israel’s army spokesperson’s workplace stated it was wanting into stories of the assault.
Because the UN Safety Council decision handed on Friday, boosting help to Gaza, the dimensions of air raids has solely elevated in magnitude, Mahmoud famous.
“There is a huge gap between the sheer level of destruction being caused by Israeli forces and the promise of more aid,” he remarked.