Reports indicate that about 25 of the deceased are children who were simply "sleeping in homes" with their families when Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) barreled in and started bombing the place to smithereens.
The bombing began late on Monday when the IDF targeted a five-story building in Beit Lahia, a town in northern Gaza that has been under an extreme Israeli siege and ground offensive for the last month.
In addition to the nearly 100 fatalities, the Gaza-based government media office says that 40 others remain missing. The Palestinian health ministry is also reporting that another 150 Palestinians were wounded to varying degrees in the IDF airstrike.
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Footage aired on Al Jazeera shows bodies covered in blankets being recovered from the site. A woman was seen weeping and mourning next to some of the victims, which included several of her children and grandchildren.
"Who shall I cry over?" the woman was heard asking. "My sons? My daughters? My grandchildren? My siblings? They're all gone. No one is left for me."
The IDF specifically targeted the building because it belonged to the Abu Naser family, which had recently taken in a number of displaced people who had been expelled by the Israeli military from their own homes in northern Gaza.
By all appearances, Israel is ordering the Palestinians to leave certain areas and flee elsewhere, only to then start bombing the areas and places where they all fled. It sure looks like deliberate genocide, in other words.
At the time of the strike, between 300 and 400 people were sleeping inside the building, many of them already wounded from other IDF strikes that left them without anywhere to go for care since Israel also took out most of Gaza's medical facilities.
"We cannot treat those wounded in the Beit Lahia massacre due to lack of resources," commented Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamala Adwan hospital.
The last time Kamal Adwan was operational was before Israeli forces raided it last week, during which they detained or expelled all medical staff except for Abu Safi and one other pediatrician.
Other hospitals in the area are reporting that they, too, can no longer operate because Israel destroyed their operations.
"Most of those injured may die due to a lack of resources," the doctor further said to the media. "The world must act and not just watch the genocide in Gaza."
On the same day as the Beit Lahia refugee building bombing, the IDF also bombarded Gaza City in an airstrike that took out at least five Palestinian civilians, according to the Wafa news agency.
"Israeli warplanes had launched two air raids on a busy market area in the Daraj neighbourhood east of Gaza City, killing five and wounding at least 20 others," Middle East Eye reported. "Two more Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on the Khirbet al-Adas area of Rafah city, in southern Gaza."
All of this is part of Israel's new "General's Plan," which critics say is a genocide operation in thin disguise. It aims to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and eventually annex the land into "Greater Israel."
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