20 Israelis went missing in a building collapse in the US.
Hebrew-language sources quoted the Israeli Foreign Ministry as saying that 20 of the missing in the collapse of a residential complex in Florida, USA, were residents of occupied Palestine.
At around 6 a.m. GMT, a Florida apartment complex collapsed for unknown reasons, leaving dozens missing, U.S. news sources reported.
According to a report on Thursday evening on the website of the Zionist network “I24”, the Foreign Ministry of this regime announced that 20 people who were missing in the collapse of this complex have “Israeli citizenship”.
“It is clear that they were living in the United States and that some of their families are waiting for bad news,” Tel Aviv’s Consul General in Miami told the Hebrew-language Kan network about the missing, the report said.
Surfside Mayor Charles Barakat said part of the building collapsed at 2 a.m. local time for unknown reasons.
“It’s really hard to imagine,” he added. I24 also quoted eyewitnesses as saying that a large cloud of dust rose into the sky after the building collapsed, and the cause remains unknown.
The report comes as some Hebrew-language sources, including the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, reported today that 34 of the missing were Jews.
According to US sources, 55 apartments were destroyed in the incident.
Although dozens of people have reportedly been evacuated from the building; But between 51 and 99 people still do not have a definite destiny.
