A Total Of 96 Palestinians Died In Israeli Airstrikes In Northern Gaza

Illustration - Explosions and smoke soared due to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency)

JAKARTA - At least 96 Palestinians were killed and as many as 60 others injured in Israeli airstrikes in the northern and central Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local authorities.

Government media offices in Gaza said Israeli warplanes targeted several residential and residential buildings in the northern city of Beit Lahia, and the refugee camps of Nuseirat and Bureij in central Gaza.

A statement issued by the media office stated that more than 72 people died in an attack in Beit Lahia, while 24 other Palestinians were killed and 60 injured in central Gaza.

"The occupation army knows that dozens of civilians who have fled are inside the building, and that most of them are children and women who have fled from the neighborhood where they live," the statement added.

They called on the international community to denounce the "terrible massacre of civilians displaced" and hold "Israel's government and its international supporters accountable, including the US, UK, Germany, and France."

A media source previously told Anadolu that Israeli fighter jets attacked a five-story building in the Beit Lahia Project area on Sunday, killing about 50 people and causing several others to be trapped under the rubble.

Several witnesses said that more than 70 civilians took refuge inside the targeted building.

The Israeli attack targeted another home in the area, killing 15 people and injuring several others, another medical source said.

Two other Palestinians were killed when Israeli warplanes attacked another residence in Beit Lahia, the source added.

Since October 5, Israel has launched a large-scale land operation in northern Gaza, which is suspected of preventing Palestinian Hamas resistance groups from reuniting. However, Palestinians accused Israel of trying to occupy the area and forcibly evicted its citizens.

Since then, no humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and fuel, has been allowed into the area, leaving most of the population on the verge of starvation.

More than 2 thousand people have since been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities.

The attack is the latest episode of Israel's brutal war on the Gaza Strip since October last year, despite UN Security Council resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire.

Nearly 43,800 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza, and more than 103,600 others have been injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court over its deadly war in Gaza.