Israel is conducting ‘genocide, plain and simple’ Palestinian-American journalist Said Ari

Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat told Al Jazeera that what’s happening in Gaza is “genocide, plain and simple.”

“Israel has been conducting genocide in a different level all throughout its existence against the Palestinians,” Arikat said.

Responding to Israel’s latest attack on Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip, Arikat added that Israel’s aim is to depopulate Gaza by making it uninhabitable, “which probably it is today anyway.”

“We see that 400,000 people in northern Gaza are being trapped with no access to medical care or food or shelter,” he said.

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‘Buildings collapsed while people were still inside’
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip

The reports we are getting right now are that more than 70 people were killed in the Beit Lahiya Project area. That’s towards the western part of the northern Gaza Strip.

People were forced to evacuate to that area due to the scale and the intensity of the massive Israeli bombardment that was taking place in the more central and eastern parts, particularly in Jabalia.

So, many people were forced into that area, and as soon as they gathered, they got bombed and killed in the places they were seeking shelter.

The confirmed reports we got say multiple air strikes took place targeting an entire residential block in western Beit Lahiya cit – very packed with people, the local residents as well as those who evacuated earlier.

The attack was so massive that it shook the entire western part of Beit Lahiya. Buildings collapsed while people were still inside. They were not given a chance to leave or evacuate. No warnings were given to people to evacuate.

The numbers are going to be increasing in the coming hours as many people are trapped under the rubble.

Paramedics and Civil Defence crew are unable to get to that area given the intensity of the artillery and the fact that many of the surveillance drones are hovering and preventing anyone from getting close to that particular site.

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