Live footage from AFP late Friday showed the night sky over northern Gaza lit up after the airstrike and thick black smoke billowing over the horizon.
On a bombed-out street in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, Om Walid Bassal, 50, asked why his apartment block was bombed by Israel.
“This was our home, we just lived here with our kids, it was full of kids,” he said. “Why are they bombing us? Why are they destroying our houses?”
Israel began bombing Gaza after a cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and abducting more than 220, according to Israeli officials.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have now killed 7,326 people, more than 3,000 of them children, the Hamas-run health ministry said Friday. Hamas had earlier said it was “ready” for an attack.
“If (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu decides to enter Gaza tonight, the resistance is ready,” Ezzat al-Rishq, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, said on Telegram.
“The remains of his soldiers will be swallowed up by the land of Gaza.”
