The assault is among the deadliest of the practically three-month-long warfare.
Greater than 100 individuals have been killed in Israeli air raids in a single day in central Gaza.
No less than 70 individuals have been killed in strikes in central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being mentioned late on Sunday. Assaults on the Bureij refugee camp noticed the variety of casualties rise to greater than 100.
Well being Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra mentioned the demise toll on the Maghazi refugee camp was more likely to rise.
“What is occurring on the Maghazi camp is a bloodbath that’s being dedicated on a crowded residential sq.,” he mentioned.
Our bodies have been piling up at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Dozens extra are reported to be injured, and a number of other homes have been destroyed within the assault. Households have been digging by the rubble in an try to search out survivors.
The bombs fell on houses and buildings, reported Hani Mahmoud from Rafah in southern Gaza, destroying neighbourhoods and infrastructure, comparable to roads main out and in of the refugee camps.
With the Bureij refugee camp additionally pounded in a single day, some 100 individuals have been killed within the final 12 hours, he added. The overwhelming majority of the victims are girls and kids.
“We have been all focused,” mentioned Ahmad Turokmani, who misplaced a number of relations, together with his daughter and grandson. “There isn’t any secure place in Gaza anyway.”
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, mentioned the Maghazi refugee camp is among the most densely populated areas in the midst of the Gaza Strip.
He mentioned it was one of many locations the Israeli army had beforehand informed the Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate to. Now the camp has been “utterly flattened”, he mentioned.
“The overwhelming majority of the casualties proper now have been amongst civilians, together with [a] two weeks [old] child that has been killed in chilly blood on this genocide,” mentioned Azzoum.
He in contrast the assault with one on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza final week, wherein at the very least 90 individuals have been killed.
The Maghazi camp was attacked last month as nicely when at the very least 50 Palestinians have been killed.
Azzoum mentioned the camp’s surrounding areas had been subjected to intense Israeli shelling within the final couple of days.
The closest hospital to the camp is Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital however well being amenities have been rendered non-functional throughout Gaza as Israel continues to bombard the territory for a 3rd month, killing greater than 20,400 Palestinians since October 7 and displacing greater than 80 p.c of the two.3 million individuals who reside there.
“Your complete medical care system in Gaza Strip is deteriorating and [is] on the sting of collapse,” mentioned Azzoum.
Hamas known as the air assault on the Maghazi camp “a horrific bloodbath” and mentioned it was “a brand new warfare crime”.
Israel’s army spokesperson’s workplace mentioned it was trying into reviews of the assault.
For the reason that UN Security Council resolution handed on Friday, boosting help to Gaza, the dimensions of air raids has solely elevated in magnitude, Mahmoud famous.
“There’s a large hole between the sheer stage of destruction being attributable to Israeli forces and the promise of extra help,” he remarked.