15 die in Israeli airstrike on Bureij refugee camp

After two Israeli airstrikes flattened an entire block of apartment buildings in the Bureij refugee camp and damaged two UN schools-turned-shelters, rubble-covered Palestinians big and small arrived at a hospital too packed to take them.

Tiny, motionless bodies lay flat against the hospital's hard floor. A small boy bled out onto the tiles as medics tried to staunch the flow from his head. A baby lay next to him with an oxygen mask strapped on — covered in ash, his chest struggled to rise and fall. Their father sat beside them.

“Here they are, America! Here they are, Israel!” he screamed. “They are children. Our children die every day.”

It was not immediately clear why Israel targeted Bureij, which is located in central Gaza in an area where Israel has urged people to go to stay safe from heavy fighting further north.

The Bureij strikes on Thursday (November 2) killed at least 15, Gaza's Civil Defense said. It said dozens of others were believed to be buried in the rubble.

In Bureij, which is home to an estimated 46,000 people, Palestinians hacked at the rubble, searching for survivors.