The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service has announced that about 55 Palestinians have been killed, with dozens others wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday, October 29.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service also added that many victims were believed to still be trapped under the wreckage. The official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, and Hamas media had previously reported the same figure, with the former saying that many of those killed in the strike were women and children.
On Monday, the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service announced that around 100,000 people were stranded in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun with no medical or food supplies but this figure has not been verified.
The emergency service also added that its operations had come to a halt because of the three-week Israeli attack into northern Gaza, where Israel said it completely destroyed Hamas’ combat forces earlier in the year-long war.
Israel had however, said the raid was done to prevent Hamas from regrouping.
