Israel Palestinians: Dozens killed in attack in northern Gaza
Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports.
20.10.2024, 00:36
SDA
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that a residential complex in the village of Beit Lahia, in which civilians were living, was destroyed. Beit Lahia is located north-east of Jabalia, where there is currently also fierce fighting.
Wafa put the death toll on Saturday evening at at least 73, with numerous people also injured. Israel's army described the figures as exaggerated after an initial check. The information provided by both sides cannot be independently verified.
The Palestinian side's account does not match its own information, the army said in a statement last night. The "information disseminated by Hamas sources" is still being examined. This had proven to be "extremely unreliable" in previous incidents. It was an "active war zone", the army emphasized. It was proceeding "precisely" and doing everything "to avoid harm to the civilian population", it said.
According to Palestinian figures, more than 42,000 people have already been killed in the sealed-off coastal area since the war began as a result of the massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and a further 250 were abducted to the Gaza Strip by Islamist terrorists. According to the UN, which considers the figures, which cannot be independently verified, to be largely credible, most of those killed are women and children.
