Greater than 100 individuals have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp with households nonetheless trapped in rubble.
Israel has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, killing greater than 100 individuals on the Maghazi refugee camp, with Palestinian authorities reporting that 250 individuals have been killed in a wave of strikes over 24 hours.
“My whole household is gone. All 5 of my brothers are gone. They didn’t go away me any brothers. … All of them!” a wailing girl mentioned on Monday on the Maghazi refugee camp within the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinians lined as much as contact the shrouded our bodies of these killed in Israeli strikes on the camp in a funeral on Monday, commemorating dozens of people that have been killed, a lot of them ladies and kids. An Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza mentioned the determine has now reached greater than 100.
The Authorities Media Workplace in Gaza mentioned seven households have been worn out within the Israeli assault on a residential sq. within the camp.
“The Israeli military doesn’t spare civilians,” Zeyad Awad, a resident of Maghazi, informed Al Jazeera.
“My little one mentioned to me, ‘Assist me! What’s taking place? I can’t breathe,’” he added.
The night time earlier than Christmas in Gaza was marked by among the most intense bombardments within the present spherical of preventing between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas with Israeli strikes levelling buildings and leaving households trapped beneath piles of rubble.
“This can be a three-story constructing that was focused, and one other home right here and one other home right here. Based on the household, he informed me that 5 of his members of the family are nonetheless underneath the rubble,” Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary reported from Maghazi, including that a kind of trapped is a child.
“He additionally informed me that there was no ambulances or civil defence since yesterday and he can’t do something about it. He’s making an attempt to dig together with his personal naked fingers,” she added.
Israeli strikes additionally killed scores of individuals in areas resembling Khan Younis, Bureij and Nuseirat. About 500 individuals have been injured by Israeli strikes over the previous day.
Reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum mentioned the demise toll within the Maghazi strike had risen to 106.
In Christmas remarks on Monday, Pope Francis mentioned kids being killed in wars, together with these in Gaza, are “little Jesuses of at present” and Israel’s assault has reaped an “appalling harvest” of harmless civilians. Greater than 20,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza since October 7.
Within the metropolis of Bethlehem within the occupied West Financial institution, the place the Bible says Jesus Christ was born, the usually jubilant Christmas celebrations have turned solemn, and Israeli forces have carried out raids.
