The number of casualties due to the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, rose to 94 martyrs, among them dozens of women and children, as well as dozens of injuries and missing persons.
Palestine’s News Agency (WAFA) quoted medical sources as saying that the Israeli occupation army bombarded a five-storey residential compound that was sheltering nearly 150 displaced people in Beit Lahia which resulted in dozens of martyrs and injuring others.
The sources added that dozens of people were still under bombed-out residential structures, with appeals ongoing to help search for survivors and retrieve martyrs from under rubble, as medical and civil defense personnel face tough situation to reach them, pointing out that cutting off internet and communications from the Gaza Strip dramatically affect the people’s ability to contact rescue personnel and medical services providers.
The preliminary figure of casualties indicates that over 62 Palestinian
s of whom 17 kids were killed, in addition to dozens of injuries, most of them were critical in a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in Beit Lahia
Source: Qatar News Agency