‘Fascist occupation army’: Hamas slams Israeli onslaught on Beit Lahiya

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has censured the Israeli regime’s fascist occupation army for a ferocious attack on a residential building that killed scores of people in the northern Gaza Strip, underlining that such acts of aggression will not break the will of Palestinian people.

At least 50 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a five-story residential building in the Beit Lahiya area of northern Gaza on Sunday morning, with several others trapped under the rubble.

“The criminal bombing carried out by the fascist occupation army targeting a residential building in Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip, and destroying it over the heads of its residents—resulting in the martyrdom of more than fifty citizens, over a third of whom were children—is a blatant act of Zionist genocide, ethnic cleansing, and brutal revenge against defenseless civilians,” Hamas said in a statement.

Stressing that the bloodshed is a continuation of the genocide and retaliation against defenseless civilians, the resistance group said, “This atrocity unfolds before the ears and eyes of the world.”

Hamas underlined that the continuation of such barbaric massacres, genocide, and starvation campaigns aimed at “displacing our people and liquidating our national cause will not succeed in achieving their objectives or breaking the will of our people.”

“We call on the international community, the United Nations, and Arab and Islamic governments to break the state of paralysis and silence regarding these crimes and to take immediate action to stop the ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north,” the statement said.

“We also demand an end to the criminal siege and starvation campaign targeting civilians in Gaza, which has expanded to encompass all areas of the Strip.”

The Israeli regime dispatched its tanks to Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia last month in what it said was aimed at combating Hamas members launching retaliatory strikes and preventing them from regrouping.

The towns have been besieged for more than 40 days, without food, water, medicine, or aid, and under constant bombing, shelling, and Israeli drones and quadcopters.

Beit Lahiya massacre: Tens of Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on residential building

Tens of Palestinians have been killed or injured in an Israeli strike on a multi-story residential building in the town of Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led resistance groups waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since then has risen to 43,846 registered fatalities, with an additional 103,740 individuals sustaining injuries, with the majority of the victims being women and children.

The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

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