A man runs past leaking fuel tanks belonging to the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2024.   (Photo: AFP)

Ramallah, December 1 (RHC)-- Israel is "completely erasing" Palestinian families in the northern Gaza Strip using internationally banned weapons that cause victims “to vaporize,” officials say.

Citing doctors and residents of northern Gaza, Hamas said in a statement on Saturday that Israel’s military forces used weapons that caused “the evaporation of bodies.”

Their “horrific testimonies,” Hamas said, “strongly indicate” that the Tel Aviv regime is using “internationally prohibited weapons during the brutal extermination campaign that has been ongoing for 53 days in the northern Gaza Strip.”

The Palestinian resistance group also demanded an investigation by an international committee into the use of the prohibited weapons in northern Gaza.

Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health Munir Al-Bursh also confirmed that Israel is using weapons in northern Gaza that they “have never seen before.”  In an interview with Al Jazeera on Friday, Bursh said that Israel’s airstrikes reduced residential buildings to rubble and dust in northern Gaza and caused many victims to vaporize.

“We don’t hear about these massacres for days because no one can contact us.”

On Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said that Israel’s military has "completely erased about 1,410 families, numbering 5,444 people” in the Gaza Strip over the past year.

Back in August, the Palestinian Civil Defense said in a report that about 1,760 people “had completely vaporized with no remains left.”  The agency said that the regime uses internationally banned weapons that disintegrate bodies upon impact.

International organizations and leaders believe that Israel’s genocidal war, now in its second year, is a deliberate attempt to destroy the population of Gaza.