30 killed in Israeli air attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp

At least 30 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a residential building in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camps late on Sunday.

All the thirty bodies have been recovered from underneath the ruins of bombed buildings, the civil defence unit said, reports Al Jazeera.

Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said that there were many casualties following an Israeli air attack on a residential building in the largest of eight refugee camps in the strip. At least 27 others were also injured, with hospitals struggling to treat the wounded.

“We are suffering from an acute shortage of medicines and medical equipment,” the director of the Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza said, as quoted by Al Jazeera.

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The densely populated Jabalia camp is also home to three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Some of these schools have been converted into shelters for hundreds of displaced families.

Israel has continued bombing the Gaza Strip for more than two weeks in response to a surprise attack by Hamas on Israeli settlements on October 7.

The latest strike on the camp comes as the death toll in Gaza rose to 4,651 and the number of injured to 14,245 since the Hamas attack, according to the besieged enclave’s health ministry.

Israel has bombarded the camp earlier as well. According to Amnesty International reports, Israeli air attacks hit a market in the camp, one of the busiest areas in Gaza, on October 9, killing a yet-unknown number of people.

The first shipment of aid arrived in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday which the aid groups say is a fraction of what is needed as thousands remain trapped. Before October 7, several hundred aid trucks arrived in Gaza each day.

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