The EU condemns an Israeli attack on a building in northern Gaza that leaves nearly a hundred dead

Borrell affirms that “the principles of proportionality and protection of civilians continue to be brutally ignored”

Oct. 30 () –

The High Representative of the European Union for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, condemned this Wednesday the attack carried out on Tuesday by the Israeli Army against a residential building in the city of Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. , which left around one hundred dead.

“The images from Beit Lahia, in Gaza, are horrible. At least one hundred people have died in another attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),” Borrell said in a message published on his account on the social network. x.

Thus, he regretted that “the principles of proportionality and protection of civilians continue to be brutally ignored.” “We will not stop condemning this and asking for accountability,” added the head of European diplomacy.

The press office of the Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), put the death toll at 93 on Tuesday as a result of the attack, carried out in the midst of the large-scale offensive launched over the last three weeks by the troops. Israelis against this area of ​​the enclave, while denouncing a “terrible massacre” by Israeli troops.

Thus, he said that there were “more than 200 civilians” in the building at the time of the attack and highlighted that “the occupation Army knew that dozens of displaced civilians were in the residential building, most of whom were children and women.” Therefore, he maintained that the international community must “pressure through all means” on the Israeli authorities to “end the genocide and bloodshed in Gaza.”

Israel unleashed an offensive against Gaza after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 250 kidnapped. The Israeli attacks already leave more than 43,000 Palestinians dead, to which are added more than 750 deaths in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the hands of Israeli security forces and attacks carried out by settlers.