New video shows an upscale high-rise apartment building in Gaza City destroyed in a cloud of fire and smoke during an Israeli airstrike.
Israel bombed the 12-story apartment building, called the Zafer Tower in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, today as Hamas continued to fire rockets towards the Israeli border.
The Palestine Interior Ministry released footage of the bombing, showing the apartment collapsing after being hit twice by Israeli bombs. The building goes down in seconds as onlookers scream and rush the injured to hospitals.
The entire building held 44 residential apartments
“People started shouting Allahu Akbar, and women and kids were screaming,” Maher Abu Sedo, an area resident, said. “This is crazy. The state of Israel has resorted to madness. In less than a minute, 44 families have become displaced. … They lost everything, their house, their money, their memories and their security.”
22 people were wounded, including 11 children and five women, according to Gaza hospital officials. Since the fighting erupted on July 8, Israel has launched some 5,000 airstrikes at Gaza.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, including 500 children, have been killed, according to Palestinian health officials and U.N. figures. Israel has lost 64 soldiers and four civilians.
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