An Israeli air strike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday killed at least 100 Palestinians, according to Palestinian officials speaking to Al-Jazeera Arabic.
Officials at the Indonesian Hospital said they had seen at least 50 fatalities, with the health ministry putting the death toll at 100 so far.
The Palestinian interior ministry said there were 400 dead and wounded in total. A ministry spokesperson said an entire residential complex had been destroyed.
“These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” interior ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bazum told reporters.
"The international community must act immediately to stop Israel before it is too late."
Footage from the camp shows buildings completely levelled to the ground, and panicked Palestinian residents carrying wounded children away from the scene.
A correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic on the ground says it will take “weeks” to save and pull people from under the rubble due to the scale of destruction.
"The massacre is huge, it is immposible to count how many homes have been destroyed. People's limbs are scattered around everywhere," he added.
Civil defence teams rushed to the scene to try and rescue people, searching through the rubble with their bare hands. Many families were in their homes when the bombs hit.
At least 8,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardment since 7 October, which came after a surprise assault by Hamas that day in which around 1,400 Israelis were killed and at lease 240 were taken captive.
The Palestinian death toll includes 3,542 children and 2,187 women, according to the health ministry.
Around 2,000 people are still missing, including 1,100 children. The vast majority of these people are believed to be dead and buried under rubble. At least 21,543 have suffered injuries of various severity.
MEE
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