Israeli attack kills at least 25 from the same family in Gaza City homes

As Israel launches airstrikes across the besieged enclave, the military kills at least 25 members of the same family in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood.

Israeli warplanes detonated a number of homes early on Sunday in the Sabra neighborhood, where Israeli tanks moved in late August as part of a plan to seize the area.

As people and emergency responders dug with their hands and as many as 50 people were trapped under the rubble, according to family members who were present at the scene, at least 17 people have been saved.

The Palestinian family pleaded for immediate assistance in order to free those who were still ensnared. The rubble may still be audible to family members who were present at the scene.

One family member pleaded with the world to help us out. Our relatives are still alive, our custom. We are unable to reach them because we keep hearing their screams from beneath the rubble.

He claimed that Israeli drones were pursuing rescuers trapped in rubble.

The Israeli drones fire on us whenever we attempt to reach them. Four of the five men who attempt it are killed, and one of them survives.

Online footage of casualties being rushed away in a small vehicle surrounded by people was widely circulated. In the Sabra neighborhood, which is located south of Gaza City, a mother is seen crying out that she lost “all of my children.”

An emergency source told Al Jazeera that four Palestinians, including four children, were killed in a second Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. reportedly struck close to a UNRWA-run clinic.

Since the start of the war in October 2023, the Israeli army has claimed at least 65, 283 lives and 166, 575 others have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Over the past day, it reported at least four more deaths as a result of Israeli-induced starvation and famine, bringing the total death toll to 440, including 147 children.

Despite the criticism and opposition from the families of the Palestinian captives in the enclave, the Israeli military attempted to forcibly seize Gaza City and forcefully replace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with more buildings on Sunday.

According to Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, many Palestinians are refusing to leave their homes because nowhere is safe due to drone strikes and remotely controlled explosive robots planted inside displacement camps and roads.

“People’s movement has been severely impeded by the use of these explosives right now. He claimed that the air is still a cloud of smoke.

Since the beginning of September, more than 450, 000 people have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City, according to the Israeli military. Hamas puts the number at under 300, 000 people, saying about 900, 000 remain.

A ground invasion is being led by three divisions, according to the Israeli military, in northern Gaza and Gaza City, and one more division is operating in Khan Younis in the south. In the past 24 hours, it claimed that its soldiers had killed “many terrorists who were on their way to carry out terror plots.”