One year into genocide, Israel continues to massacre Palestinians with impunity in Gaza. On Saturday, Israel carried out a horrific massacre in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing at least one hundred Palestinians, mostly women and children. The death toll is expected to rise dramatically, as hundreds are fatally wounded, missing, or trapped under rubble. As they have throughout this war, Palestinians are struggling to count the dead.
Bodies are scattered in the streets. Dr Ahmed Abdul Hadi, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, confirmed that over fifty people are still trapped under rubble. Horrific footage shared by Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif shows Palestinians pulling children’s bodies from the rubble. Al-Sharif himself, one of Gaza’s few surviving journalists, reported the execution of his family live on TV.
Armed with massive US-made bombs and warplanes, Israeli forces carpet-bombed entire residential blocks in the area, wiping out neighborhoods and massacring whole families. Buildings collapsed while people were inside. Horrifying footage shows babies and children slaughtered, lying in a bloodbath in their sleeping beds, as well as a Palestinian woman lamenting the loss of her entire family. “They are all gone, Father. They have left me.” Another shows rescuers trying desperately to stop an entire building from collapsing on the head of a young girl stranded under rubble. Families continue to search for their missing relatives under the collapsed buildings.
The prospects for survival are bleak. According to Izzeddin Shaheen, a doctor working in a hospital in northern Gaza: “There are no hospitals, no media coverage, no chances to survive. People fled from the bombing in Jabalia to Beit Lahiya, and now they are being killed in their homes.”
Other Israeli massacres have been reported in Al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps over the weekend, where over four hundred bodies have been recovered so far….
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Auteur: Seraj Assi
