MADRID 17 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 40 people died this Sunday in northern Gaza as a result of an Israeli attack on a residential building in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the north of the enclave, as confirmed by the Palestinian Civil Defense.
The building, according to the organization’s spokesperson, Mahmud Basal, was full of people previously displaced from Jabalia due to the Israeli bombings on the enclave and local sources have indicated to the newspaper ‘Filastín’, related to the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the strip, that the The death toll could exceed fifty. Sources from the Al Jazeera network, also present in the enclave, raise the death toll to 70.
Hamas immediately condemned a “criminal bombing” and claimed that a third of those killed were minors. “It is a Zionist intensification of genocide, ethnic cleansing and brutal revenge against defenseless civilians, taking place before the eyes of the world,” the movement denounced.
One of the first international reactions has come from the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, which has condemned both the bombing of Beit Lahia and that which occurred on Saturday against a school that served as a shelter in the Al Shati displaced persons camp, and which left at least one dozens dead and more than 20 injured.
“This is a flagrant violation of the norms of international law, especially the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Human Rights,” denounced the Ministry’s spokesperson, Sufian al Qudá.
“This systematic attack reflects the absence of an effective and determined international response to stop Israeli aggression,” he lamented in a statement published by the official Jordanian news agency Petra.
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