At least 20 Palestinians, including five children, have been killed after a war-damaged six-storey
residential building collapsed overnight in Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence. Fourteen
others were injured, while dozens of people remain trapped beneath the rubble.
Civil Defence teams, assisted by local residents, have been searching for survivors and recovering bodies
from the wreckage.

“This is not the first collapse of a building and we fear that it may not be the last one,” Yahya Al Sarraj, the mayor of Gaza city, told Al Jazeera.

“The collapsed building, consisting of six floors, with four residential apartments on each floor, had been directly targeted during the genocidal war, weakening its structural integrity and ultimately causing its collapse,” it said in a statement.

Gaza Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said nearly 100 Palestinians were believed to remain
under the rubble, while rescue efforts have been hampered by a lack of heavy equipment.