State of disaster declared in Gaza’s Beit Lahia amid Israeli attacks, siege
The municipality in the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip has declared a state of disaster in the city amid unremitting Israeli attacks and siege.
The announcement was made after the regime killed some 120 Palestinians in the city.
Residents in the North Gaza Governorate that includes the city have been calling for immediate dispatch of civil defense teams and ambulance crews in the face of the Israeli authorities.
The governorate, however, has no civil defense crews or medical services left to provide for the disaster-stricken Palestinians due to the regime’s aggression.
On Monday, Mahmoud Basal, Gaza’s chief of civil defense, reported that many people had gone missing since the launch of the Israeli operations, which he described as a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
He said more than 1,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, had been killed over the past weeks during the campaign.
“The occupation deliberately destroys more than one building in each airstrike to cause the highest number of martyrs,” Basal said, adding that the regime “kills anyone who attempts to provide services to the residents of northern Gaza.”
A ranking official with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has, meanwhile, described the situation in the targeted areas as “catastrophic.”
The campaign is taking place as part of a genocidal war that the regime launched on Gaza last October, during which it has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians so far.
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