The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the brutal crime of Israel’s attacks on two residential buildings in northern Gaza that killed at least 75 people.
Hamas said in a statement on Friday that most of the victims of the attacks in Beit Lahia were women and children.
The group said medical teams were unable to reach the affected area as Israel continued to bar them from entering the battered north.
Israel has besieged the area since 50 days ago amid a vicious bombing campaign against civilian structures.
“The Zionist enemy continues its brutal war of genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, which it began fifty-two days ago, under a complete criminal siege and a complete ban on the entry of any of the necessities of life, such as food, water or medicine,” Hamas said.
The group said that the Israeli regime “targets defenseless civilians and civilian facilities, especially hospitals, and kills doctors, paramedics and civil defense personnel, and prevents access to the wounded to treat them in the most heinous crime of ethnic cleansing known to modern history.”
“We call on the international community, the United Nations and its institutions to break the siege on the northern Gaza Strip, allow relief, ambulance and rescue teams to enter, and stop the systematic campaign of extermination carried out by the Zionist occupation army and the war criminals among the occupation leaders against defenseless civilians, through brutal massacres, ethnic cleansing, and a systematic criminal starvation operation proven by reports from international institutions,” Hamas said.
On Friday, Israeli strikes also killed three in a separate attack in the north and leveled residential buildings in Rafah in the south.
The Israeli genocide has killed over 44,360 civilians since October 2023. The onslaught has injured over 105,000 others.
