Israeli Airstrike Hit Densely Populated Gaza Refugee Camp

At least 15 people were killed after an Israeli strike hit a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday, Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson said. People covered in dust were brought to the emergency department as residents said dozens were trapped under the rubble.

Speaking to Qatar’s Al Jazeera television, Mahmoud Bassal said it has been difficult for civil defense vehicles and first responders to clear the rubble. A survivor speaking to the television network compared it to an earthquake.

Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, U.S. and Arab mediators intensified efforts to ease Israel’s siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and called for at least a brief halt to the hostilities in order to aid civilians.

Israel says its airstrikes target Hamas militant sites and infrastructure, and it accuses the group of using civilians as human shields. It also says more than 500 militant rockets have misfired and landed in Gaza, killing an unknown number of Palestinians.

More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in the first 25 days of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. More children have been killed in just over three weeks in Gaza than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years, according to the global charity Save the Children.

Israeli children have also been killed. During Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 rampage across southern Israel that sparked the war, its gunmen killed more than 1,400 people. Among them were babies and other small children, Israeli officials have said, though they haven’t provided exact figures. About 30 children were also among the roughly 240 hostages Hamas took.

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[rogeres]

Will Israel be condemned like Russia & made pay for the reconstruction of Gaza .
Their assests seized and used ?

[BluegrassDaimyo]

Where are all the crowds that were dancing in the Street on 7 October? Where are the people shooting guns in the air shouting Allah Akbar?

[notnovisubsole]

What did they think would happened after Oct 7? Back to the stone age where you belong.

[EddieMo]

Prayers from all the way in Kcmo...🙏🗣️‼️

[matthewmurphy]

It aint like they didnt tell u 100 times to get the f$#@ out of the way

[malemesjager]

How's that Hamas Government you voted for going for you Gaza??

[IjenimamImam-unfj]

My Palestinian brother. Be patient..the greatest is Allah

[muzaffarjawaid]

Insaan AllA is bhe Jada lsrail hukum ka hall bhaut bura ho gay ga lnsaa AllA ameen AllA Akbar