GAZA, (PIC)
Israeli airstrikes on al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza has massacred at least 70 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian health officials have said, while warning that the toll is likely to rise as the strikes that began hours before midnight continued into the dawn of Monday.
Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital affirmed it received bodies of 70 martyrs as a result of the Israeli attacks that targeted the refugee camp last night. The sources added that a number of wounded civilians were brought to the hospital, including ones in critical condition.
Israeli warplanes also carried out more than 50 consecutive airstrikes early Monday, including a series of belts of fire on the al-Nuseirat, al-Bureij, and al-Maghazi refugee camps.
Meanwhile, spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza Ashraf al-Qudra described what happened at al-Maghazi as “a massacre that was committed against a crowded residential square.”
Qudra added that the Israeli occupation forces were shelling the main roads between the camps in central Gaza to hinder the arrival of ambulances and civil defense crews to the bombed areas.
For its part, the government media office said that the Israeli army committed a heinous massacre in al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza, where it bombed three homes belonging to the families of Musallam, Sisalem and an-Nawasra.
The media office appealed to the free world to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza’s civilians, children and women.
