At least 30 people were killed in Israeli bombardments on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, local emergency services said, as the army continued its offensive against Hamas in the north of the besieged Palestinian territory.
“Israeli airstrikes” left at least 17 dead in northern Gaza, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. The deadliest strike left “six dead, including women and children” in a home of the Warsh Agha family in Beit Lahia, in the far north, he said.
In Jabalia, a few kilometers to the south, “an Israeli missile targeted a house of the Al-Najjar family, killing four and wounding three,” he added.
The Hamas Ministry of Health, for its part, reported 13 Palestinians killed in the south of the Gaza Strip during several strikes. One of them left nine people dead, including four children, east of Khan Younes.
The Israeli army “continues its bombings”, Mahmoud Bassal told AFP, affirming that houses sheltering civilians are struck “without prior warning”. Furthermore, “the land offensive continues in the north, where the siege is complete.”
Since October 6, the northern Gaza Strip has been the scene of intense bombings and clashes between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters who, according to Israel, are regrouping in the region.
Mahmoud Bassal estimated that “more than 100,000 inhabitants of the North are without food, without a bucket and without medicine. They urgently need resources for their survival but we cannot provide any help,” he said, as Civil Defense teams no longer have vehicles to transport the wounded or equipment to search the rubble. .
Mohammad Salha, director of al-Awda hospital in Nousseirat (center), described in a statement a “horrible” situation in northern Gaza. He said that the establishment had a surgeon, the only one in the north of the territory, while “more than 70% of victims admitted to the hospital need surgery”.
