1000s of Gazans flee Israel shelling
Iran Press TV
Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:2PM GMT
Thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes as the Israeli military keeps pounding their homes in the besieged Gaza Strip.
This came after Israeli army heavily shelled Beit Hanoun and its surroundings on Sunday night.
New footage shows hundreds of families leaving their homes in the northern city of Beit Hanoun for nearby Beit Lahia.
'It seems we are heading toward a massacre in Beit Hanoun. They drove us out of our houses with their fire. We...took our kids and ran away,' media outlets quoted displaced Palestinians as saying , who added that 'it was a night of horror.'
A large number of Gazans have been forced to flee their homes since Israel began bombarding their territory from land, sea and air two weeks ago.
Some 83,000 Palestinians have taken shelter in about 60 schools across the enclave, which are run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The Palestinian territory has been also trying to deal with a humanitarian crisis as many people do not have access to water, electricity and medical supplies.
The developments come as the number of Palestinians killed in 14 days of the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 514.
In a separate statement, Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah has strongly condemned the massacre of the Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army in Shejaiya district near the Gaza City.
Hezbollah denounced the indiscriminate killing of civilians, saying the Israeli military has committed genocide in Shejaiya.
It also criticized the army's refusal to allow medical teams to enter the area to save the wounded and evacuate the bodies.
The Lebanese resistance group also denounced the 'criminal silence' of international and Arab organizations on the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.
JR/AB/SS
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