His Majesty King Hamad has directed officials to dispatch urgent humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people.
The aid will be provided through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The King’s humanitarian gesture comes as the Palestinian death toll in Israeli bombings since Saturday rose to 900.
These included 260 children and 230 women along with 4,600 wounded in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian heath ministry in the coastal enclave said last night.
Israel hammered the Gaza Strip yesterday with the fiercest air strikes in its 75-year conflict with the Palestinians, razing entire districts.
The United Nations said more than 180,000 Gazans had been made homeless, many huddling on streets or in schools.
At the morgue in Gaza’s Khan Younis hospital, bodies were laid on the ground on stretchers.
Medics called for relatives to pick up bodies quickly because there was no more space for the dead.
A municipal building was hit while being used as an emergency shelter. Survivors there spoke of many dead.
“No place is safe in Gaza, as you see they hit everywhere,” said Ala Abu Tair, 35, who had sought shelter there with his family after fleeing Abassan Al Kabira near the border.
Radwan Abu Al Kass, a boxing instructor and father of three, said he had been one of the last to evacuate his five-storey building in the Al Rimal district after the area came under attack.
He finally left when a missile hit the building, which was destroyed by a bigger strike after he got out.
“The whole district was just erased,” he said.
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