The assault is likely one of the deadliest of the almost three-month-long battle.
Greater than 100 individuals have been killed in Israeli air raids in a single day in central Gaza.
At the very least 70 individuals have 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 loss of life toll on the Maghazi refugee camp was more likely to rise.
“What is occurring on the Maghazi camp is a bloodbath that’s being dedicated on a crowded residential sq.,” 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 girls and youngsters.
“We have been all focused,” stated Ahmad Turokmani, who misplaced a number of relations, together with his daughter and grandson. “There is no such thing as a protected place in Gaza anyway.”
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, stated the Maghazi refugee camp is likely one of the most densely populated areas in the course of the Gaza Strip.
He stated it was one of many locations the Israeli navy had beforehand instructed the Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate to. Now the camp has been “utterly flattened”, he stated.
“The overwhelming majority of the casualties proper now have been amongst civilians, together with [a] two weeks [old] child that has been killed in chilly blood on this genocide,” stated Azzoum.
He in contrast the assault with one on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza final week, by which a minimum of 90 individuals have been killed.
The Maghazi camp was attacked final month as properly when a minimum of 50 Palestinians have 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 services 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 % of the two.3 million individuals who stay there.
“All the medical care system in Gaza Strip is deteriorating and [is] on the sting of collapse,” stated Azzoum.
Hamas referred to as the air assault on the Maghazi camp “a horrific bloodbath” and stated it was “a brand new battle crime”.
Israel’s navy spokesperson’s workplace stated it was wanting into studies of the assault.
Because the UN Safety Council decision handed on Friday, boosting help to Gaza, the size of air raids has solely elevated in magnitude, Mahmoud famous.
“There’s a big hole between the sheer degree of destruction being attributable to Israeli forces and the promise of extra help,” he remarked.