Blast at Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza kills dozens
Journalist Muhammed Alaloul told CNN on Sunday the explosion killed four of his children and three of his siblings
Journalist Muhammed Alaloul told CNN on Sunday the explosion killed four of his children and three of his siblings
Journalist Muhammed Alaloul told CNN on Sunday the explosion killed four of his children and three of his siblings
Dozens were killed and many more injured in a blast at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip late Saturday, according to an official at a nearby hospital and eyewitnesses who spoke with CNN.
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The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza said 47 people were killed. The director of communications at the Al-Aqsa Hospital, Mohammad al-Hajj, told CNN the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike.
Later Sunday, the hospital바카라 게임 웹사이트s director, Dr. Eyad Abu Zaher, said 52 people had been killed, differing from the health ministry바카라 게임 웹사이트s figure.
바카라 게임 웹사이트One of the houses in the camp was struck. This house was crowded with residents. Its residents were bombed while they were safe in their homes,바카라 게임 웹사이트 added the head of nursing, Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran.
The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment as to whether it was targeting the area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it is looking into the circumstances around the explosion.
One resident of the camp told CNN: 바카라 게임 웹사이트We were sitting in our homes, suddenly we heard a very, very powerful sound of an explosion. It shook the whole area, all of it.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Video taken at the Al-Aqsa Martyr바카라 게임 웹사이트s Hospital showed multiple bodies laid out under white tarpaulins, including small figures believed to be children, and more bodies were still coming in from the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, said Dr. Al-Daqran.
He said the hospital was not equipped to accept the high number of patients, and the shortage of fuel and supplies made it impossible to adequately treat the wounded.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The number of people inside the hospital who need treatment is more than double the number of beds in the hospital,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he told CNN.
The IDF has been pounding Gaza for four weeks with the stated aim of annihilating Hamas, whose fighters breached the Israeli border on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages.
Israel has repeatedly urged civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza as it has intensified its air and ground assaults across the strip.
At least 9,472 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7, according to figures released Sunday by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah that are drawn from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The whole building fell on us바카라 게임 웹사이트
Journalist Muhammed Alaloul told CNN on Sunday the explosion killed four of his children and three of his siblings.
Alaloul, a freelance photojournalist with the Turkish news agency Anadolu, said his home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Hospital officials in Gaza have also attributed the explosion to an Israeli airstrike.
The Israel Defense Forces told CNN it is looking into the circumstances of the blast.
Video from the scene shows extensive destruction, with many buildings damaged or destroyed.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I saw my son Kenan, my daughter Rahaf, I saw Ahmad, my son 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and Qais, my son. I saw my three siblings martyred; I saw friends who were at my house martyred,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Alaloul said.
On returning to where his home once stood, Alaloul recounted: 바카라 게임 웹사이트My house was completely destroyed. 바카라 게임 웹사이트 It was full of children, and now, there are still people trapped in the debris in the area that we can바카라 게임 웹사이트t reach.바카라 게임 웹사이트
He said his wife, mother, father and another child were injured. His wife was critically wounded and was admitted to the intensive care unit.
The Al-Maghazi refugee camp is located in the central part of the coastal enclave south of Wadi Gaza, the waterway that divides north from south Gaza.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the camp is filled with narrow alleys, where 33,000 people lived before the conflict, in a relatively densely packed area of no more than 0.6 square kilometers.
Jamal Al Aloul, a resident of Al-Maghazi, said he was sleeping soundly when suddenly 바카라 게임 웹사이트the whole building fell on us.바카라 게임 웹사이트
He said his two children were killed in the collapse, but he did not know who else had been killed because so many people lived in the building.
Another camp resident, Samah Shaqoura, told CNN her family was sitting in the living room, laughing and talking together when their home was struck.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I saw a red light, then we were shaking on the sofa. I saw all my sisters screaming. 바카라 게임 웹사이트 When I found myself alive, I looked to see who is still alive,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she said.
She said moments later, she found her father dead.
Her mother, Sundos Shaqura, said the whole house collapsed suddenly on them as they shared some tea after their evening prayer.
The unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza has prompted global criticism of Israel, with even some of its closest allies calling for a break in the fighting 바카라 게임 웹사이트 either a humanitarian pause or ceasefire 바카라 게임 웹사이트 to allow aid to reach civilians.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with key Middle Eastern leaders at a summit in Jordan on Saturday, when he again rejected calls for a ceasefire and reiterated US support for 바카라 게임 웹사이트humanitarian pauses.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government opposes any temporary ceasefire in Gaza unless Hamas frees all the hostages it took during the militant group바카라 게임 웹사이트s rampage on Oct. 7. Netanyahu said Israel would continue to block fuel from entering the enclave.
Despite Israel바카라 게임 웹사이트s opposition, Blinken reiterated his calls during an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, saying he had 바카라 게임 웹사이트no doubt바카라 게임 웹사이트 that 바카라 게임 웹사이트everyone would welcome humanitarian pauses바카라 게임 웹사이트 in Gaza.
Speaking to the media after his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad, Blinken said negotiations on a pause are a 바카라 게임 웹사이트process,바카라 게임 웹사이트 but that U.S. and Israeli teams were meeting Sunday to 바카라 게임 웹사이트work through the specifics, the practicalities of these pauses.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트Israel has raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. We바카라 게임 웹사이트ve got to answer those questions. We바카라 게임 웹사이트re working on exactly that,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.
