Reports say wounded are dying due to lack of hospitals, a result of Israel’s systematic destruction of health services
By Huthifa Fayyad for Middle East Eye
Israeli forces have murdered nearly 100 Palestinians, including 25 children, in an air raid on homes in northern Gaza where displaced people were sheltering.
The bombing late on Monday targeted a five-story building in Beit Lahia, a northern town that has been under a severe Israeli siege and ground offensive for 24 days.
At least 93 fatalities have been confirmed, including several dozen children, according to the Gaza-based government media office. Forty more are missing.
The Palestinian health ministry reported 150 wounded.
Footage aired on Al Jazeera showed recovered bodies covered in blankets at the attack site. A woman was seen mourning next to victims, including several of her children and grandchildren.
‘Who shall I cry over?’ she asked. ‘My sons? My daughters? My grandchildren? My siblings? They’re all gone. No one is left for me.’
The targeted building belonged to the Abu Naser family, which had recently taken in displaced people expelled by Israeli troops from their homes in north Gaza.
Between 300 and 400 people were sleeping in the building at the time of the strike.
Local media reported that wounded people were dying due to the lack of functional hospitals in north Gaza, a result of the systematic destruction of health services by Israeli forces.
‘We cannot treat those wounded in the Beit Lahia massacre due to lack of resources,’ Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, told Al Jazeera.
Kamal Adwan was the last operational hospital in northern Gaza before Israeli forces raided it last week, detaining or expelling all medical staff except Abu Safia and another pediatrician.
Other hospitals in the area have ceased operations due to Israeli attacks and a blockade preventing fuel, food and medicine from entering.
Survivors seeking medical help for the wounded from the Beit Lahia attack were also bombed, according to Abu Safia.
‘Most of those injured may die due to lack of resources,’ the doctor said. ‘The world must act and not just watch the genocide in Gaza.’
‘Generals’ Plan’
The Israeli military launched a new offensive in north Gaza on 5 October, which rights groups describe as part of a plan to ethnically cleanse the entire area of Palestinians.
This offensive followed the controversial ‘Generals’ Plan,’ proposed to the Israeli government, which aims to empty northern Gaza and to establish a ‘closed military zone’.
‘Those who leave will receive food and water,’ stated Giora Eiland, a retired general spearheading the proposal.
According to the plan, anyone who stays would be labeled a Hamas operative and would be killed.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, estimates that about 400,000 people remain in northern Gaza, including Gaza City.
The besieged areas are under a debilitating blockade and media blackout, with Israeli forces accused of exacerbating starvation and malnutrition as part of the ethnic cleansing plan.
Since the war on Gaza began nearly 13 months ago, Israeli forces have murdered more than 43,000 Palestinians and wounded over 100,000. More than 10,000 are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
At least 17,000 children and nearly 12,000 women are among the deceased, according to the Gaza-based government media office.
God has a special place planned for the murderers of women and children. There is no rationale acceptable for destroying hospitals and medical supplies. This war crime should be met with the entire might of the world militaries. It makes a mockery of Nuremberg, the United Nations, and any regime claiming to desire world peace. I am sickened by the lies and deception. I am beginning to doubt God over this. Faith is hard to stand up in light of the murder of so many innocents.
ed note–the Jews behaving as they are now (just as they have for millenia) is not as much proof that God does not exist as it is proof that the Devil is a very real entity and that he is–just as Jesus Christ Himself stated–the Jews’ father