Major attack on Gaza – hospitals appeal for help

More than 90 people are believed to have been killed in the attack, nearly half of them women and children, according to data from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health. Among others, a mother and her five children were said to have been killed, the Associated Press wrote, as well as another mother with her six children.

The Ministry of Health said in a statement, according to what was reported by Reuters, that “a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the surrounding roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.”

According to the Palestinian authorities The five-storey building was used by fleeing Palestinians. The information claims that approximately 150 people were present in the building when it collapsed after the Israeli attack. The Israeli army did not comment on the attack.

In one section Through Al Jazeera reporters on the ground, several people could be seen gathered at the destroyed house, crying and feeling despair.

“You see, people have been buried alive,” one man said, pointing to what used to be a building but is now a pile of rubble.

An elderly man appeals to the outside world through the channel's camera, while the sound of bombs is heard nearby:

– Civil defense and hospitals stopped working. The Palestinian people are being eliminated. These are civilians. They are killing us civilians.

Beit Lahia and neighboring Beit Hanoun Jabalia has been under Israeli siege since early October. This means that rescue efforts are not reaching those trapped under the racist masses, several media outlets reported.

Israeli forces also raided several hospitals, including Kamal Adwan's, destroyed equipment and kidnapped male medical staff on Saturday.

Hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya told Al Jazeera that the hospital was filled with wounded after the attack on Beit Lahia. He appeals to the outside world to send medical personnel who can save lives.