Israeli attack on Gaza refugee camp kills dozens of Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip from Israeli warplanes continues for a sixth day, flattening neighbourhoods and focusing on houses with residents inside them.

The air assaults on Thursday focused two houses belonging to the al-Masri and al-Hasani households within the Shati (Seashore) refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis alongside the Mediterranean coast.

Israel mentioned it has dropped 6,000 bombs in six days on the besieged enclave, one of many world’s most densely populated areas.

Gaza has been reduce off from the remainder of the world by the Israeli army for 16 years, successfully forcing its 2.3 million residents to stay in an open-air prison.

Shati is the third-largest refugee camp among the many eight within the Gaza Strip, and likewise one among its most crowded, with greater than 90,000 folks dwelling in an space of lower than half a sq. kilometre.

Thursday’s air raids on the camp killed 13 folks belonging to 2 households.

“Eight of my members of the family have been killed to date,” Saad al-Masri advised Al Jazeera. “My brother Abu Mohammed misplaced his two sons, Yaser and Ramadan, and their daughters Abeer, Firyal and Aya.”

The 50-year-old mentioned extra our bodies could possibly be trapped below the rubble, however there have been no machines to drag them out.

Gaza Metropolis’s principal hospital has run out of house in its morgue and our bodies in white physique luggage are mendacity on the ground.

The Israeli assault on the Shati camp was adopted by comparable aerial assaults all through the Gaza Strip. In line with Gaza well being authorities, not less than 31 folks from the Shihab household, most of them ladies and kids, had been killed after an Israeli assault on their dwelling in Jabalia, the most important refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Within the central city of Deir el-Balah, not less than 14 members of the Azaizeh household had been killed after their home was focused.

The loss of life toll has now surpassed 1,500, with 60 p.c of Palestinians killed being ladies and kids, well being officers have mentioned. Greater than 6,000 others have been wounded.