Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya kills 93, says Gaza rescue agency

Scores of Palestinians, including many women and children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a crowded apartment building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 93 people had been killed and 40 were still missing. Many of the victims were members of the extended Abu Nasr family, as well as Palestinians displaced from elsewhere.

Emergency workers and neighbours scrabbled through concrete wreckage on Tuesday. The remains of victims were wrapped in blankets and lowered by rope from a balcony to be laid on the bloodied ground. Limbs poked out through chunks of dusty masonry and twisted wire.