Report on inability to rescue victims of IDF bombing of Beit Lahia

No.

8051

Date

26 October, 2024

Location

📍 Gaza - Beit Lahia - North Gaza

Original Social Media Post

"First footage emerges after the israelis massacre at least 40 ppl in Beit Lahia, 100s injured & 100s under the rubble: no rescue teams to assist"
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Archivist Notes On This Video

"*Five families belong to the Abu Shadq, Al-Masry, and Salman. More than 35 were martyred in this massacre, most of them are women and children. The SOSs keep coming in (interruption) the area was directly bombarded and the destruction is extensive according to witnesses. In addition, drones opened fire on civilians while they were trying rescue and evacuating the victims. There is great difficulty in recovering the bodies of martyrs. SOSs from the rubble keep coming amid the absence of Civil Defense and ambulance services, nor operational hospitals. So even if people manage to rescue the injured and transport them on carts and cars, they will eventually lose their life."

Archivist Notes: Beit Lahia massacre (Oct 26, Abu Shudq, Al-Masry and Salman families)

Around 8:30 pm, Israeli airstrikes targeted a residential block in Beit Lahia. The residential block was near the western roundabout and consisted of five houses belonging to the Abu Shudq, Al-Masry, and Salman families.

Context

This was the second large-scale massacre perpetrated under a week in Beit Lahia, as the October 20 massacre led to around 120 casualties, at leats a third of which were killed.

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif received calls from families begging him to alert rescue crews so they could come and rescue the victims.

Over the previous few days, Israel had engineered a total collapse of healthcare in North Gaza through a combination of actions: detention of medical staff, siege and shelling of hospitals, destruction of roads leading to hospitals, forced displacement of civil defense from the North governorate, and the total blockade of medical aid.

In these conditions, civilians took it upon themselves to rescue and evacuate whoever they could. Yet, rescuers were shot at by Israeli drones. Journalists reported that many victims would ultimately bleed to death in such conditions.

Dr.Hassan Al-Baba, Director of the Holy Quran and Sunnah House in Beit Lahia, who holds a doctorate in international law, was among the victims, joining his mother, sister and two daughters who were martyred two weeks before.

The next morning, civilians were still leading search and rescue efforts with any means available

Names of the martyrs (identified):

  1. Dr. Hassan Al-Baba

Abu Shudq family

  1. Al-Mukhtar Abu Jameel Abu Shudq
  2. Mohammed Jamal Abu Shudq
  3. Saadi Abu Shudq and his family
  4. Shaimaa Saadi Abu Shudq
  5. Mona Saadi Abu Shudq
  6. Jihan Abu Shudq
  7. Asmaa Mahmoud Al-Masry (Ayman Abu Shudq's wife)
  8. Hour Ayman Abu Shudq
  9. Jinan Ayman Abu Shudq
  10. Mustafa Ayman Abu Shudq
  11. Nour Ayman Abu Shudq

Jouda family

  1. Mohammed Abdulbari Jouda
  2. Shorouq Saadi Abu Shudq (Mohammed Jouda’s wife)
  3. Halima Mohammed Jouda (child 3 y/o)
  4. Rakan Mohammed Jouda (infant, 9 month-old)

Salha family

  1. Mohammed Salha "Abu Karim"
  2. Kholoud Al-Masry (Mohammed Salha's wife)
  3. Karim Mohammed Salha
  4. Mary Mohammed Salha
  5. Nora Mohammed Salha
  6. Ibrahim Mohammed Salha

(Source)

Photos of the destroyed residential block:

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.