Hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and injured after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip as part of the regime’s ongoing bombing campaign against besieged territory.
Palestinian officials have noted that US-made bombs have targeted residential homes, causing a massacre, adding that an entire residential complex had been destroyed in the attack. Dozens of civilians remain stuck underneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Israeli aircraft dropped at least six bombs in the neighborhood, each weighing around 1000 kilograms.
Video footage shows buildings completely leveled to the ground, some Palestinian residents can be seen carrying wounded children away from the scene while others search for survivors.
The Jabalia Refugee Camp is one of the most crowded parts of the Palestinian enclave. At least 20 buildings were destroyed in the air raids.
The attack comes as Israel continues to pommel the Gaza Strip in a relentless bombardment which Palestinian authorities say has killed over 8600 people, including more than 3500 children, since the fighting began on October seventh
The Israeli occupation continues to commit barbaric crimes against civilians so the latest of which was the bombing of a whole residential neighborhood In Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip. The occupation used six mega bombs each waiting one ton of explosives.
Eyad Al-Bozom, Gaza Interior Ministry, Spokesperson
The health ministry of Gaza compared the attack to the massacre carried out by Israel at the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza City where hundreds of people were killed.
The latest massacre by Israel in Jabalia has triggered global condemnation.
Iran says the strike is another stain on the long list of Israeli war crimes.
In Doha, the Qatari Foreign Ministry decried the strike and warned about the expansion of Israel’s attacks on civilians.
Egypt has also censured Israel and its “inhumane targeting of residential blocks”. Cairo says it will open the Rafah crossing to let in the wounded for treatment.
Jordan condemned the Jabalia strike, stressing that it held Israel responsible for this dangerous development.
Saudi Arabia has condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli strike on the refugee camp.
The director at the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for human rights has also resigned in protest at what he called the UN’s failure to prevent the genocide in Gaza.
Craig Mokhiber has accused the US, UK, and much of Europe of being “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”.
Meanwhile, Bolivia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel over the Zionist regimes crimes against humanity and its aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry made the announcement on Tuesday after Israeli jets bombed the refugee camp in Gaza.
The government has decided to cut diplomatic relations with Israel in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip, and the threat to international peace and security.
Freddy Mamani, Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister
Other South American countries like Chile and Colombia have also recalled their ambassadors to Israel for consultations over what they called the regime’s violations of international humanitarian law.
Many view the bombing of Gaza as collective punishments of Palestinian civilians.
It is completely absurd that we in 2023 should have a state army that is threatening to bomb hospital [sic] and de facto is bombing hospitals, and killing children by the thousands, in what is called a war.
Now, these threats to the Palestinian civilian hospitals in Gaza is extremely serious, not only because it is illegal according to international law, but it’s threatening the lives of thousands of patients, of staff, and not to forget, the 12,000 refugees who have taken refuge in al-Quds hospital, and the more than 50,000 who have taken refuge in the Al-Shifa Hospital.
Dr Mads Gilbert, Emergency Medicine Physician
