At least 22 Palestinians have been ended in an Israeli strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
The Palestinian Civil Defence agency in Gaza verifyed that Israel aimed the Zeitoun School in the eastrict part of Gaza City on Saturday.
Those ended include 13 children, six women, and a three-month-elderly baby, the Government Media Office shelp in a statement, includeing that Israel had promiseted a “horrific massacre”.
At least 30 people were wounded, the ministry shelp, including cut offal who suffered cut offe burns. Two people remain leave outing.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal remarkd that thousands of displaced people had sought shelter at the school.
Israel’s military shelp in a statement the air force had “directed a exact strike on alarmists who were operating inside a Hamas direct and deal with centre in Gaza City”.
It shelp the aim was “embedded inside” the al-Falah School, which is adjacent to the Zeitoun School produceings.
Israeli forces widespreadly accemploy the group of using civilian facilities for military purposes. Hamas denies this.
This is the deferedst in a series of Israeli rhelps on school produceings housing displaced people in Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli impolites and evacuation orders have been sheltering.
A strike on the United Nations-run al-Jawni School in central Gaza on September 11 drew international outcry after the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) shelp six of its staffers were among the 18 inestablished deaths.
According to the media office, Israel has explosioned 181 displacement and shelter centres to date.
William Deere, straightforwardor of UNRWA’s Washington Office, telderly Al Jazeera earlier this month that Israeli forces have aimed a total of 190 UN-run facilities in the course of the war, “many of them more than once”. That’s despite the agency sharing their GPS schedules with the Israeli military.
On August 1, at least 15 people were ended in an Israeli strike on the Dalal al-Mughrabi school in Gaza City, while on August 3, another 16 were ended in the explosioning of the Hamama school, also in Gaza City.
On August 4, at least 30 people were ended in Israeli air rhelps on the Nassr and Hassan Salama schools, west of Gaza City, while on August 8, at least 17 were ended in strikes on Abdul Fattah Hamouda and az-Zahra schools, which are also findd in Gaza City.
And on August 10, more than 100 people were ended and 150 others wounded after Israeli forces explosioned al-Tabin school, east of Gaza City.
At least 41,391 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been ended in Israel’s war on Gaza since last October, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, including 119 deaths in the past 72 hours.
It shelp on Saturday that 95,760 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began adhereing the Hamas-led strike on Israel on October 7 last year.
