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Qatar Press Center condemns Beit Lahia massacre

The Qatar Press Center condemns the continuation of the genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces, since October 7, 2023 until now. The center confirms that the bombing of a residential building housing 150 displaced people in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, at dawn today, and the killing of 80 Palestinians, including 25 children, is a new massacre added to the black record of Israeli crimes against thousands of Palestinian women and children. The Center condemns the occupation's deliberate targeting of the displaced persons' shelter, the destruction of what remains of the infrastructure in the Strip, and the use of starvation as a weapon in the war on Gaza. The Center calls on the international community to stop the barbaric aggression and genocide of the Israeli people, enable international relief organizations to carry out their duties, and prevent the plans of forced displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that Israel is pursuing in blatant defiance of the international community, and which explicitly threaten international peace and security. This morning, the Israeli occupation bombed a five-story residential building belonging to the Abu Nasr family in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses confirmed to Anadolu Agency that dozens of wounded people are still under the rubble of the destroyed building, while the residents of the neighborhood continue to appeal for help in searching for survivors or the bodies of martyrs under the rubble, in light of the inability of the Civil Defense and ambulance to reach them. Kamal Adwan Hospital Director, Hussam Abu Safia, said, “We cannot treat dozens of people injured in the Beit Lahia massacre due to lack of resources.” He added in a statement to Al Jazeera: The occupation army is bombing the hospital's surroundings while treating the wounded from the Beit Lahia massacre. He appealed: "The world must take action and not just watch the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip." He stressed that most of those injured in the Beit Lahia massacre may be martyred due to lack of resources. The world called for sending specialized medical delegations to treat dozens of injured people in the hospital. The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said: "Our work has been forcibly suspended for the seventh day in all areas of the northern Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli aggression, the arrest of a number of our cadres, and the displacement of others." He added: "The occupation committed a series of massacres in the northern Gaza Strip in the complete absence of ambulance and relief services." He continued: "100,000 citizens in the northern Gaza Strip are being subjected to continuous bombing." Civil Defense advised citizens in the northern Gaza Strip not to gather in shelters "to avoid massacres." He pointed out that "for 24 days, food and water have not entered the northern areas of the Gaza Strip." The Israeli war on Gaza caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, and led to the displacement of more than 85% of the Strip’s population, amounting to 1.9 million people.