More than 50 Palestinians were killed or remain missing after an Israeli airstrike committed Thursday night a new massacre by targeting and completely destroying a home in the Jabalia al-Balad area of northern Gaza, Gaza’s Civil Defense announced Friday.
In a statement, the agency said the death toll from the airstrike on the residential building had surpassed 50, including both confirmed fatalities and missing persons.
Earlier Thursday night, medical sources told Anadolu that six people were killed in an Israeli strike targeting the home of the Dardouna family in the same area.
Civil Defense crews described the scene as a “horrific massacre,” reporting that they recovered the bodies of four victims and rescued six others from the rubble. However, more than 50 people are still believed to be trapped under the debris of the four-story building.
Rescue operations have been completely halted due to a lack of heavy machinery, the Civil Defense said, leaving the fate of those buried under the rubble unknown.
Hamas slams Israeli attack on medical depot in northern Gaza hospital
The attack on the warehouse at al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia is a further attempt to target Gaza’s health sector
and destroy what remains of it, Hamas says in a statement on Telegram.
“[Israel] continues its horrific violation of international laws and humanitarian norms by directly targeting hospitals and inhabited homes, relying on American political and military cover and a shameful state of international impotence.”
The statement called on the UN and the remainder of the international community to take “immediate action… to ensure an end to the horrific massacre in the Gaza Strip”.
As we reported on Thursday, that Israeli attack started a fire at a medicine depot at Jabalia’s al-Awda Hospital.
Aid trucks into Gaza ‘too little, too late, too slow’
The number of aid trucks that Israel has allowed into Gaza is insufficient and must be expanded, a spokesperson for the German government has said.
“This is far too little, too late and too slow,” the spokesperson said. “Now it’s a matter of increasing it significantly … and ensuring that these aid supplies reach the people so that the suffering in the Gaza Strip comes to an end.”
