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The bodies were recovered from under bombed buildings, most of them women and children, Gaza’s civil defense said.
Thirty bodies, most of them women and children, have been recovered from the ruins of bombed buildings in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, the civil protection unit there told Al Jazeera.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry said there were many casualties after an Israeli airstrike late Sunday on a residential building in the largest of eight refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
At least 27 people were also injured, with hospitals saying they are struggling to treat the injured.
“We are suffering from an acute shortage of medicines and medical equipment,” the director of the Indonesian hospital in North Gaza told Al Jazeera.
Israel has continued to bomb the Gaza Strip for more than two weeks in response to a Hamas incursion into Israeli territory on October 7. The attack on the camp comes as the death toll in Gaza has risen to 4,651 and the number of injured since then to 14,245. according to the besieged enclave’s Ministry of Health.
‘We will never be safe’
The densely populated Jabalia camp is also home to three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Some of these schools have been converted into shelters for hundreds of displaced families.
There had also been previous bombings of the camp by Israel. Amnesty International reports that on October 9, Israeli airstrikes hit a market in the camp, one of the busiest areas in Gaza, where an unknown number of people were killed in the attacks.
A resident of the camp who survived them says the events of the past two weeks have changed everything.
“For me,” Asmaa Tayeh, a young writer, told Al Jazeera, “I believe we will never be safe even after the war is over. In fact, I will never feel free as long as Palestine is occupied and the population is terrorized.”
The first aid shipments arrived in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday, but aid groups say this is a fraction of what is needed as thousands remain trapped.
Before October 7, hundreds of aid trucks arrived in Gaza every day.
