Israel bombed an apartment building in Gaza – at least 93 dead, most victims women and children

At least 93 people in their majority women and children were killed in his bombing on the first morning Tuesday (29.10.24) in its Strip, local emergency relief agencies announced, with the U.S. condemning this “frightening” blow to the Palestinian enclave, which has suffered huge destruction after a year of war. While the besieged Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian disaster, the adoption on Monday by the Israeli parliament of a law prohibiting any activity of UNRWA, a UN agency characterized by the ‘skin’ of humanitarian operations in the small enclave, caused international outcry. Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip were launched after the 7th October attack of Hamas military arm against southern Israel. The day after the outbreak of the war, Hezbollah opened a front against Israel, before daily firefights were transformed into an open war in September. In Bate Lachia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, civil protection announced the death of at least 93 Palestinians in a bombardment at the “Abu Nasr family residence”, five-story apartment building, filling in that there were still dozens trapped in the wreckage. The Israeli army was limited to announcing that it is considering “the information about an incident” in Bate Lahia. “The property collapsed in the middle of the night”, while the tenants were ‘sleeping’,” he said periresident, Rabi al Sadagli, 30. “In most of them, victims are women and children. People try to save the wounded, but there is no hospital nor can proper medical care be offered.” In the absence of stretchers, bloodthirsty bodies recovered from the huge pile of debris and concrete were carried with blankets, he found a photojournalist of the French Agency. Israel’s main supporter at military and political level at international level, the U.S., said they “came into contact” with their ally to claim that responsibilities should be attributed after this “frightening” bombing with a “frightening effect”. The Israeli army has been conducting a new operation in northern Gaza since 6 October, focusing on Jabalia, where Hamas militants are attempting to regroup. He announced yesterday that he killed “about 40 terrorists” in Jabalia and suffered four casualties in his ranks. Hamas’ raid on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 cost the lives of 1,206 people, the majority of them civilians, according to a French Agency count based on official data, including hostages killed in captivity or already dead when transferred to Gaza. Of the 251 people kidnapped during the attack, 97 remain hostages in the Gaza Strip, but 34 of them have been declared dead by the Israeli army. In retaliation, Israel vowed to wipe out the Palestinian Islamist movement, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, and launched large-scale military retaliation operations that have cost life at least 43,061 Palestinians, in their majority civilians, according to data from the Hamas Government Health Ministry. A few months after the Israeli government accused UNRWA officials, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, of participating in the October 7 attack, parliament, Knesset, adopted a law yesterday Monday that prohibits all activities in Israel. The second text prohibits Israeli public servants from cooperating with UNRWA and its employees, which will complicate the work of the agency even more. Israel strictly controls all the entrances to humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, absolutely necessary for the 2.4 million inhabitants of the enclave, threatened by famine, according to the UN. Many European capitals strongly criticised this ban, while the State Department again said it was contrary to the law. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stressed that he fears the “catastrophic consequences” that his application for Palestinians would have in a letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the hope that the legislation at issue would not apply. As the cycle of attacks and retaliation between Israel and Iran strengthens concerns that the entire Middle East will be sparked, Israeli general defence staff chief General Herchi Khalevi threatened once again yesterday that his army would hit the Islamic Republic hard if he retaliates the Israeli offensive of 26 October against military targets on Iranian territory. A sworn enemy of Israel, Iran supports Hamas and Hezbola, whose leaders were exterminated by Israeli armed forces. Yesterday, Naim Kasem was named the new Hezbola leader, replacing Hassan Nasrala, the secretary general of the Shia Lebanese movement, killed on 27 September in an Israeli bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut. But he too may have the same luck as his predecessor, Israeli Defence Minister Joav Galland threatened: “The countdown began,” he said. In the opposing camp, Iranian President Masud Pezeskian assured that Naim Kasem’s appointment “will strengthen resistance”. In Lebanon, the Israeli army continues its daily intensive air bombings since 23 September, mainly in areas considered forts of Hezbola. It also conducts land operations from 30 September. Yesterday, at least 14 people were killed in Israeli bombings near Saida and Sarafad (south), according to Lebanese authorities. On her side, Hezbola announced that she destroyed two Israeli tanks east of Hiam, six kilometers from the two states border, in the deeper invasion after Israel’s army began land operations in late September on Lebanon’s territory, according to the Lebanese national news agency. Israel says it wants to neutralize Hezbola in southern Lebanon, so that it can be allowed to return to its northern part of about 60,000 people forced to leave their homes because of the unrelenting rocket launches from the day after the outbreak of the Gaza Strip over a year ago. At least 1,750 people have been killed in Lebanon since 23 September, according to a French Agency count based on official data.