Israeli airstrike on apartment block in Beit Lahiya kills at least 109, at least 25 children

At least six more killed in southern Gaza as genocide continues

An Israeli airstrike on a five-story residential building sheltering refugee families in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya has killed at least 109 Palestinian civilians, including at least 25 children, and wounding or trapping many more. At least six more Palestinians were killed in the south of Gaza.

Israel continues to fire missiles and drop bombs on civilians and has kettled around 400,000 people in northern Gaza, where is is denying them food, water and medicines and is destroying the few remaining medical facilities in a drive to kill the local people or force them out. Israel has declared Unrwa, the UN’s food agency for Palestinians, a terrorist organisation, an effective kill notice on its 13,000 aid workers. The approximately 1.6m people in southern Gaza are also being starved and killed, with around 200,000 already murdered and many more maimed.

The UK government has said this week that it is unhelpful to call Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians a genocide.

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