Tag: displaced families

The Gaza City building collapse that leveled a six-story apartment tower overnight has killed at least 20 people and left dozens more trapped beneath the rubble in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. By Wednesday, families were already burying their dead even as rescue crews kept digging through the wreckage with their hands, unable to reach everyone still calling out from underneath. The building, known locally as al-Saada, held four apartments on each of its six floors and had become home to roughly 100 displaced people, including about 50 children, according to the United Nations. Gaza's Civil Defense agency, which operates under Hamas authority, said the structure had already been cracked by an Israeli strike earlier in the nearly three-year war and had been structurally unsound ever sinc...