50 killed in Israeli air attack on Gaza refugee camp
Al Jazeera :
At least 50 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to a medical official and Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory.
“More than 50 people have been killed,” Dr. Atef al-Kahlout, director of the Indonesian Hospital, told Al Jazeera.
He said the hospital was unable to yet provide the total number of casualties as it was still counting the victims.
The health ministry in Gaza said more than 50 people were killed and scores of others wounded in the Israeli bombardment.
“More than 50 martyrs and around 150 wounded and dozens under the rubble, in a heinous Israeli massacre that targeted a large area of homes in Jabalia camp in the northern (Gaza) Strip,” a health ministry statement said.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Israeli troops push deeper into Gaza, with witnesses reporting heavy clashes after tanks reached a residential area in Gaza City.
Bombardments reported across the besieged territory as Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire.
At least 8,525 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks since October 7.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel.
Ahmad al-Kahlout, director of Gaza’s civil defence, has pleaded for international help to get fuel to overloaded hospitals after the latest Israeli attack killed and wounded hundreds of people in the Jabalia refugee camp.
“The beds are not enough, the dead and wounded are on the floor. We can guarantee treatment for anybody.
Without fuel our operations will completely stop.
The intensive care patients, the kidney patients will all lose their lives.
The world is signing the death warrant of these people,” al-Kahlout told Al Jazeera.
Dr Mads Gilbert, a pro-Palestinian activist who has worked in Gaza, says his sources on the ground say Israel bombed 15 civilian homes in the Jabalia camp.
“The last number I got was about 100 killed and 300 injured.
There is absolutely no doubt that this is a mass murder.
The hospital system in Gaza cannot accommodate 300 new injuries,” Gilbert told Al Jazeera.
