{"id":25068,"date":"2024-10-30T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25068"},"modified":"2024-10-30T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T05:55:59","slug":"mayhem-nearly-100-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-air-strike-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/10\/mayhem-nearly-100-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-air-strike-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem: Nearly 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Nearly 100 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a single residential block in northern Gaza, the city\u2019s civil defense agency said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strike \u2013 which the US labelled \u201chorrifying\u201d \u2013 hit a five-storey residential building in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>93 people have been killed and another 40 people are missing, with rescuers scrambling for survivors, according to the Gaza government media office. 20 children were among the dead, medics said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of martyrs in the massacre of the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahia has risen to 93 martyrs, and about 40 are still missing under the rubble,\u201d Gaza civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said it was \u201clooking into the reports\u201d of the strike in Beit Lahia.<\/p>\n<p>The bombing comes as Israel faces international backlash after its parliament voted overwhelmingly to ban UNRWA, the main United Nations aid agency working with Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The US expressed deep concern over the strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,\u201d State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the area, more than 12 months into the war sparked by Hamas militants launching a bloody cross-border assault into Israel on October 7 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 43,061 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory\u2019s health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable, triggering warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a single residential block in northern Gaza, the city\u2019s civil defense agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,979,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-international","category-headline"],"views":41,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25071,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions\/25071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}