The Gaza civil defense announced on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike against a residential area killed at least 73 Palestinians in Beit Lahiain the north of the territory, and it is feared that many more are trapped in the rubble.
For its part, Israel assured that it had hit “a terrorist target of Hamas“.
“Our civil defense teams They recovered 73 martyrs and a large number of injured as a result of the attack by the Israeli air force against a residential area (…) of Beit Lahia,” Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, told AFP.
“There are still martyrs under the rubble,” added Bassal, who indicated that the homes of several families were hit by the attack, which occurred on Saturday night.
The press office of the Gaza government, under the command of Hamas, confirmed the death toll, and assured that it includes women and children. He indicated that the attack was against a “densely populated residential area.”
However, the Israeli army stated that the balance disclosed by the Gaza authorities “does not correspond with the information in the hands of the IDF (Israeli defense forces)”, given the precision of the munitions used in the “attack against a Hamas terrorist target“.
He did not detail who the attack was directed against. bombing.
Israel launched a broad air and ground attack on northern Gaza on October 6 to prevent the regrouping of Hamas in the area, forcing the displacement of thousands of residents.
Prior to Saturday’s attack, the Israeli operation had killed more than 400 people in northern Gaza, Bassal told AFP on Saturday.
