Israeli air strikes target densely populated residential complex in northern Gaza town, killing and wounding scores

An Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, killed at least 73 Palestinians on Saturday evening, according to the enclave’s government media office.

More than 100 others were wounded and several people missing.

Israeli air strikes targeted a multi-floor building and damaged a number of nearby houses, medics in the Gaza Strip reported.

The government media office said that Israeli forces had bombed overcrowded residential areas in Beit Lahiya, adding that women and children were amongst the casualties.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

      It’s hard for me to even track when it’s an article with more details about a previous massacre versus a report of a new massacre. Israel attacks civilians with such frequency that there’s a new slaughter even as the previous one is just being fully reported.

    • rsuri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Part of the problem is that the images suck. Honestly. Here we see a bunch of body bags, we know literally nothing about who’s in them. But on Oct. 7 there were lots of images and video of what happened, with people’s faces visible.

      The most effective thing that could be done to support Palestinians, infinitely more effective than spray painting neighborhoods and camping in public spaces, would be to give them cameras and a means of releasing video. As long as it’s just numbers, no one will care.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 month ago

        The thing is. There’s been loads of first hand evidence about the victims. You know the person who got burned in the hospital with IVs still attached to his hand? His name is Shaban al-Dalou. He’s a 19 year old aspiring software engineer who never got to finish his studies and work as an engineer because he was murdered.

        There’s a lot of stories like this, if you just want to look. The western media fucking surpresses this stories because they don’t want us to humanize the Palestinians.

      • Naryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 month ago

        Here we see a bunch of body bags, we know literally nothing about who’s in them

        Because showing 73 military soldiers dead isn’t going to inspire sympathy from idiots in the west and get Hamas propaganda pieces written.

      • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        take heart, Biden says he is very concerned. Harris too. Any day now he’s going to stop the shipments and start poking netenyahu forcefully in the chest, screaming in his face, making threats.

        /s. I’m just messing with you.

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Biden blocked it and told us it would interfere with his ceasefire deal that was just days away. But that was months ago and turns out to have been another lie.

  • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    When capitalists develop the Gaza strip their sacrifice shall not be forgotten, just like in the US and Native Americans.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 month ago

    Israel should be abandoned by the U.S. entirely at this point. There is no reason to continue any type of relationship with these genocidal shitbags.