Gaza (EFE).- Israel’s military on Wednesday bombed and demolished the Taiba 2 residential tower in Gaza City, an hour after urging its forced evacuation, EFE reported from the Strip’s capital.
This is the sixth high-rise residential tower Israel has destroyed in recent days.
Israeli fighter jets fired at least three missiles at the tower, which is more than 10 stories high, causing it to completely collapse, raising a huge cloud of smoke that could be seen from different parts of the capital.
It is still unknown whether there were any fatalities from the attack or whether the tower was unoccupied.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim that these buildings are used by Hamas as observation points, among other purposes.
The residential and commercial tower blocks of Gaza City constitute an important , which before the Israeli military offensive was a vibrant capital.
Just an hour earlier, IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued a forced evacuation order for this building and its surroundings on the social media platform X, alleging, as the military routinely does, that it contained “Hamas infrastructure.”
The Taiba 2 tower is the sixth high-rise – in addition to dozens of slightly lower buildings – that Israel has demolished since Friday, when it detonated the 12-story Al-Mushtaha building.
On Saturday, it bombed the Al-Sousi tower, on Sunday, Al-Roya 1, and on Monday, the Al-Roya 2 and Al-Salam towers, according to a tally by the Qatari network Al Jazeera.
The destruction of these buildings, surrounded by hundreds of tents housing displaced people, has left thousands of people homeless, according to Civil Defense estimates.
The IDF issued an evacuation order for the entire city on Tuesday, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
In response, humanitarian groups and the health ministry warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis among a population already suffering from famine. EFE
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