Gaza - Saba:
The Zionist enemy targeted the city of Beit Hanoun, located in the far north of the Gaza Strip, yesterday evening, Saturday, with dozens of simultaneous and unprecedented airstrikes in one of the most violent waves of "belts of fire" since the beginning of the genocide against the Strip on October 7, 2023.
The scene on the ground and sky of Beit Hanoun was transformed into scattered masses of flame and columns of smoke rising everywhere. When all this cleared, only total destruction appeared, a black color.
Beit Hanoun, which the enemy army had forced its citizens to evacuate under bombardment and fire months ago, appeared to be burning alone, and the sounds of explosions could be heard from several kilometers away in Gaza City and the central and southern regions of the Strip.
Anadolu Agency reported that the violent explosions in Beit Hanoun caused panic among Gaza City residents due to their intensity. Although they had witnessed the sounds of shelling and scenes of massive fire since the beginning of the war, this time the picture was completely different.
On social media, activists posted a terrifying video documenting the moment the enemy bombed Beit Hanoun. The scene resembled an apocalyptic scene: a bright red light dispersing the darkness and the sound of deep explosions shaking buildings in the distance.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the sounds of the bombing were heard in the heart of Gaza, more than ten kilometers away, terrifying children. Mothers hugged their children as they stared at the strange lights coming from the north.
The witnesses added that the smell of thick smoke from the Israeli airstrikes on Beit Hanoun could be smelled from Gaza City due to the intensity of the airstrikes.
For his part, Ahmed Riyad, a member of the Popular Committee in the Beit Lahia Project area in the northern Gaza Strip, told Anadolu Agency, "The Israeli enemy army has turned Beit Hanoun into ruins over the past months, and tonight it set this ruins ablaze with a wave of airstrikes we have never seen before."
Riyad added, "Fires are rising from everywhere in the town, and we can see this from the north of Gaza City. We see the fire of the Israeli airstrikes, not just the smoke, from several kilometers away."
He continued, "Everything is flashing in the currently destroyed city, and black smoke is almost completely covering the sky above it."
He pointed out that residents in the north of Gaza City are feeling the tremors of the Israeli airstrikes targeting Beit Hanoun, something that has not happened since the beginning of the war.
Riyad stated, "The city of Beit Hanoun has now been completely wiped off the map. All that remains are piles of rubble from homes and infrastructure."
On Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz published an aerial photo of Beit Hanoun, boasting at the time that the city had been "razed to the ground," in a shocking scene showing vast areas of rubble and the remains of completely destroyed buildings.
Katz's publication of the image showing Beit Hanoun being razed to the ground comes at a time of increasing international criticism of the Zionist enemy's policies in Gaza, amid accusations of "genocide" and a scorched-earth policy targeting civilians and the necessities of life, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
According to previous figures from the Beit Hanoun municipality, approximately 60,000 people lived in the city, which covers an area of approximately 17,000 dunams, before the start of the latest genocide.