New Israeli massacre kills about two dozen civilians in central Gaza

The Israeli military has committed a new massacre against Palestinians in Gaza, killing about two dozen civilians and wounding scores in the central part of the besieged Palestinian territory.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 23 people were killed and over 50 others injured following the Israeli airstrike on al-Bureij camp on Tuesday. 

“The occupation bombed several homes belonging to the families of Al-Tarturi, Abu Shawqa, and Al-Batran, in Al-Bureij camp … dozens are still trapped under the rubble,” Palestinian new agency WAFA quoting sources reported

Seven people from the same family have been pronounced dead in the aftermath of the strike on the camp. The report noted that a child was among those killed.

The Palestinian Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has called on the International Red Cross “to rescue dozens of people trapped under the rubble.” 

“The occupation used destructive American-made bombs in its bombing of the residential block,” it said. 

“Dozens of distress calls have been received from inside the homes targeted by the occupation … entire families have been erased from the civil registry in the Al-Bureij massacre,” the Civil Defense added. 

The victims of this air raid are displaced Palestinians who made their way back to their homes in the past few weeks.

They made their way back to the Bureij camp and that’s when they were attacked by the Israeli military.

For more than five hours now, paramedics have been largely unable to reach the site of the air strike and rescue those still trapped under the rubble.

Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups have strongly condemned the massacre. 

Hamas said the massacre comes “amidst a reprehensible international silence and a state of complete paralysis of the international system from playing its role in activating the laws of protecting civilians in wars.” 

Separately,  the Mujahideen Movement said in a statement that silence by international community emboldens to continue its crimes across the besieged region. 

“The international silence and Arab failure encourage the Zionist enemy to continue its heinous crimes against our Palestinian people, and whet the appetite for more killing and terrorism against the defenseless and innocent,”

Just last week, at least 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in an attack on southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi, targeting an area designated by Tel Aviv as a “safe zone.”

Israel pushes ahead with its genocide in the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from more than eleven months of attacks exceeds 41,200.

At least 10,000 people are still unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of bombed-out homes across the besieged strip.

Israel has committed many massacres in its 75 years of occupying Palestinian land, in what has been described before as a “slow-motion genocide”. 

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