Seven children are among the victims. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian authority, decreed a day of “national mourning”.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Several Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of the twenty -one fire victims who ravaged a building in the North of the Gaza Strip on Friday 18 November, whose circumstances are still blurred the day before.
Hamas, an Islamist movement in power in the Palestinian enclave under Israeli blockade, said without more details that fuel was stored in the three -story building, located in the Jabaliya refugee camp. According to Salah Abou Leila, director of the Jabaliya hospital, seven children are among the twenty -one fire victims, which the firefighters managed to master in the evening. About fifteen people were injured. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, who did not author authority in Gaza, declared a day of “national mourning”.
wrapped in Palestinian flags, the twenty -one remains were transported through a compact crowd in the overcrowded camp of Jabaliya. The disaster “reminds the world the human drama experienced by Gaza under blockade” and the absence of “means to manage fires”, deplored Ismaïl Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political office on Thursday.
The Israeli administration, which imposes a strict blockade on the Gaza Strip since the arrival of the Islamist movement at the head of the enclave, in 2007, authorized the transfer of the wounded to the passage of Erez, But it is unclear if outings have been able to take place. This 365 square kilometers microteritority has 2.3 million inhabitants. Electricity failures are frequent, which requires using more dangerous means for, among other things, lighting or cooking.