Rescuers say nearly 100 people were killed in an Israeli gas attack

Almost 100 people, including children, were killed in a large -scale Israeli, air attack and the sea started in Northern Gas in the beginning of Friday, Hamas and residents said.

Civil defense stated that at least nine houses and tents living in the home were bombed over the night, and it received dozens of calls from the people who were trapped.

Witnesses also reported smoke bombs, artillery shelling and tanks in Beyt Lakhia.

Israeli military personnel said it was “operating and dismantling the terrorist infrastructure in Northern Gas and” eliminated several terrorists “over the last day.

This notes the largest attack on northern gas since Israel has restored its offensive in March.

Basher al-Gandur, who escaped Bate-Lehi after Jabali, said that the BBC people slept when suddenly a “intense bombing” hit the night.

“He came from all sides – air strikes and warships. My brother’s house collapsed. There were 25 people inside,” he said.

He said 11 people were injured and five were killed, including nephews, at the age of five and 18, and a 15-year-old nephew. He and others tried to release relatives from rubble.

“My brother’s wife is still under the rubble – we failed to save her. From, how intense the bombing was, we had to escape,” he said.

“We didn’t take anything with us – neither furniture nor food nor flour. We even left bare feet.”

Another survived, Yusif Sale, told reporters that he and his three children simply escaped death. “

“The air strike hit our neighbors’ home – none of them survived,” he said.

He said the artillery shells started beating near their home when they were trapped. When he tried to leave, he said that the quadrangular drone opened the fire, he said.

He made a second attempt under a great shelling, he said. All roads were blocked, but they managed to find the side road.

“We fled just a few minutes before Israeli tanks surrounded the area,” he said.

According to the locals, the attack began with the prohibitions of smoke bombs, after which intensive artillery shelling from the nearby Israeli positions.

Then the tanks began to move to the Al-Salaten neighborhood in West Beit-Laia.

Witnesses report that Israeli armored vehicles surrounded the school, hiding hundreds of displaced civilians.

Israeli planes threw leaflets at the beginning of Friday in several districts of Northern Gaza, calling on residents to evacuate the areas immediately, causing concerns that Israeli defense forces (IDF) expanded their military operation in one of the most thick regions of Gaza.

The evacuation orders have caused panic among the families that have been moved several times since the war began. Many have nowhere else to go.

“I swear that I do not know where we are going,” said Sana Maruf, who fled with her family on the donkey in Gaza.

“We don’t have mattresses, blankets, food or water.”

She said she saw people “tore apart” for the night. “It was a black night. They bombed us tirelessly.”

The attack in Northern Gas occurred after more than 120 people, mostly in the south, were killed in Israeli on the south.

On Friday, IDF stated that over 150 “targeted terror” was inflicted over the past day, including anti -tank missile positions, military structures and centers where groups planned to “carry out IDF troops”.

Southern Gaza IDF said he had dismantled the structures and mine of Hamas and killed “several terrorists”, which, according to Israel, planned to plant an explosive device.

While powerful strikes on Friday during the night and report on the advance troops west of Bite -League, it is not yet like Israel threatens a major military offensive.

The Israeli government has pledged to strengthen the gas operations and repeat the lane at an indefinite time if Hamas did not accept the temporary ceasefire and return the rest of the President Donald Trump’s regional trip on Friday.

Although there were no signs of breakthrough with the negotiating groups that are still in Doha, local media say that Arab mediators are pushing for more time to negotiate.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas agreed in January, when Israel restored air blows in March.

Israel also implemented a complete blockade on humanitarian aid, including food, which was widely condemned as the UN, as well as European and Arab countries.

Israeli’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said last month that the blockade was a “main lever pressure” to ensure the victory over Hamas and pull out all the hostages.

A growing proof that Israel’s 10-week blockade has an increasingly detrimental humanitarian impact. Assistance organizations and residents say people are on hunger strike now.

A recent report is not supported He said that the whole population of Gaza – about 2.1 million people – is at a critical risk of hunger.

The Israeli government insisted that the gas lacking and that “the real crisis is the robbery and sale of Hamas.”

Israel and the USA Proposed permit and distribution assistance Through private companies – a plan rejected by the UN.

This week, the United States caused a deterioration of the gas situation.

Planting his flight home from the Middle East, Trump said in the United States needs to “help the Palestinians” and admits that “a lot of people are starving”.

On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said the Trump administration was “bothering” by the humanitarian situation.

On October 7, 2023, Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s cross -border attack, which killed about 1,200 people and took 251 people.

According to the Ministry of Health, Hamas, who is engaged in the territory, at least 53,000 people were killed in Gaza.

Fifty-eight hostages are still held in Gaza, up to 23 of which are allegedly alive.

Additional Alice Kaddy report in Jerusalem