Israel bombed a five-story apartment building in the Beit Lahia area of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 100 people. Dozens of people are trapped in the debris.
“The property collapsed overnight,” while the tenants were “sleeping”said 30-year-old Rabi al-Sadagli. “In their majority, the victims are women and children. People are trying to save the injured, but there is no hospital and no proper medical care can be provided,” he said.
In the absence of stretchers, bloodied bodies being pulled from the huge pile of rubble and concrete were carried on blankets, an AFP photojournalist found.
The US condemned the “horrific” blow to the Palestinian enclave, which has suffered massive destruction after a year of war. The Israeli military limited itself to announcing that it was looking into “information about an incident” in Beit Lahia.
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While the besieged Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian disaster, the adoption by the Israeli parliament of a law banning all activities of UNRWA, the UN agency described as the “backbone” of humanitarian operations in the small enclave, has caused an international outcry.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his fear of the “catastrophic consequences” its implementation would have on the Palestinians in a letter he addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the hope that the disputed legislation will not be implemented.
As the cycle of attacks and retaliation between Israel and Iran heightens concerns that the entire Middle East will be ignited, Israel’s Chief of the National Defense General Staff, General Herzi Halevi, threatened once again yesterday that his army would hit “hard » the Islamic Republic if it retaliates for the October 26 Israeli attack on military targets in the Iranian ground.
Yesterday (29/10) Naim Qassem was named the new leader of Hezbollah, replacing Hassan Nasrallah, the Shiite Lebanese movement’s secretary general, who was killed on September 27 in an Israeli bombardment in a southern suburb of Beirut. But he too may suffer the same fate as his predecessor, threatened Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad: “The countdown has begun,” he said.
In the opposing camp, Iranian President Massoud Pezheskian assured that the appointment of Naim Qassem “will strengthen the resistance”.
Source: APE-MPE, AFP
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