Palestinian refugees burned alive as Israel bombs tents at Deir Al-Balah’s hospital
The Israeli regime has bombed a refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, triggering a huge fire that killed Palestinians, who were seeking refuge there from the ravages of the regime’s ongoing genocidal war.
The attacks targeted the camp that sheltered displaced Palestinians at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah in the early hours of Monday, killing at least three people and injuring around 70 others.
Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll is expected to rise as dozens of displaced Palestinians are feared dead.
Footage circulating across social media platforms showed people trying to extinguish the fire using what comes to hand, including blankets and buckets of water.
Frame grab from a video shows the Israeli attack on a refugee camp in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on October 14, 2024.
Arabic-language news outlets depicted an appalling picture of the aftermath of the attacks that hit the camp, when many of its residents, including children, were asleep.
The Israeli military alleged that it had carried out the attacks as means of targeting a “command center” used by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
The group has unexceptionally refuted such claims, which are routinely used by the regime in an attempt to justify its acts of barbarism against the Palestinian civilians.
The attacks followed the regime’s killing of at least 20 people, including children, at a school inside the Nuseirat refugee camp, which is likewise located in central Gaza.
The atrocities came as part of the regime’s October 7, 2023-present war on Gaza that has so far claimed the lives of at least 42,227 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded 98,464 others.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said the attacks marked the seventh consecutive time, when the regime had bombed the displaced people at the hospital since the beginning of the war.
“We strongly condemn the occupation's perpetration of this new massacre inside the walls of the hospital,” it said.
It held the regime and the United States, Tel Aviv’s biggest supporter, “fully responsible for this massacre and the systematic crimes against civilians and displaced persons in the Gaza Strip,” and called on the international community to pressure the regime to stop its atrocities.
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