At least 21 people have been killed and several others injured after a fire broke out in a structure where residers attended a party in Gaza, health and civil exigency officers said.
Footage circulated on social media showed and substantiations said the whole domestic structure caught fire on Thursday in the Jabalia exile camp in northern Gaza, transferring up dears and bank from the point.
Substantiations said they could hear screaming but they couldn’t reach the victims to offer help because of the intensity of the fire.
Gaza’s civil defence unit verified in a statement that 21 people had been killed.
Jabalia is one of eight exile camps in Gaza, home to 2.3 million people, and one of the most densely peopled areas in the world.
Hamas, which governs Israel- blockaded Palestinian enclave, said the cause of the fire remained unknown and that several others had been injured, without furnishing numbers.
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Palestine to mourn deaths
The head of the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, Saleh Abu Laila, told the AFP news agency that the installation had entered the bodies of at least seven children.
While the cause of the fire remained unknown, a prophet for the civil defence unit told AFP that inventories of energy were stored in the house.
Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas, grounded in the Israeli- engaged West Bank — a separate Palestinian home — called the fire “a public tragedy”, his prophet said.
Abbas declared a day of mourning on Friday, with flags to be flown at half-mast, and offered to shoot aid to families of the victims to “ease their suffering”, prophet Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement.
An elderly functionary with the Palestinian Authority in the enthralled West Bank, Hussein al-sheik, said in response to the blaze that the PA had prompted Israel to open the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel for critical medical evacuations of serious cases.
At least 21 Palestinians killed in a fire in Jabalya Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. President Mahmoud Abbas announced a day of mourning. https://t.co/e3c19L4507
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Israeli leaguer
Gaza, densely peopled with 2.3 million of people, has been under Israeli leaguer since 2007.
With the electricity force meager in the impoverished home, domestic blazes are common, as Gaza residents seek indispensable sources for cuisine and light, including kerosene lights.
This time Gaza entered a normal of 12 hours of mains electricity daily, over from just seven hours five times agone, according to United Nations data.
New troubles arise in the downtime when numerous people burn coal for heat.
Hamas said a disquisition was underway to determine the cause.
