In a statement on Sunday, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry revised its death toll from 73 to 87 after the Israeli strike on Beit Lahia. The ministry also said that ambulance crews were unable to reach the site of the Israeli strike. Dr Eid Sabbah, Kamal Adwan Hospital's director of nursing, said the Israeli strike in Beit Lahia had completely destroyed several buildings, with "more than four, five residential blocks... razed to the ground". He urged for an end to the "siege" on hospitals in northern Gaza and "for life to return to normal... before it’s too late, before our nation is exterminated”. On Saturday, the UN's top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring "unspeakable horrors" and called for these "atrocities" to stop.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 21, 2024 06:17 UTC