At the very least 22 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack that hit a faculty sheltering displaced individuals in Gaza Metropolis, in keeping with Gaza’s Ministry of Well being.
The Palestinian Civil Defence company in Gaza confirmed that Israel focused the Zeitoun Faculty within the jap a part of Gaza Metropolis on Saturday.
These killed embrace 13 youngsters, six girls, and a three-month-old child, the Authorities Media Workplace mentioned in an announcement, including that Israel had dedicated a “horrific bloodbath”.
At the very least 30 individuals had been wounded, the ministry mentioned, together with a number of who suffered extreme burns. Two individuals stay lacking.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal famous that 1000’s of displaced individuals had sought shelter on the faculty.
Israel’s navy mentioned in an announcement the air drive had “performed a exact strike on terrorists who had been working inside a Hamas command and management centre in Gaza Metropolis”.
It mentioned the goal was “embedded inside” the al-Falah Faculty, which is adjoining to the Zeitoun Faculty buildings.
Israeli forces often accuse the group of utilizing civilian amenities for navy functions. Hamas denies this.
That is the newest in a sequence of Israeli raids on school buildings housing displaced individuals in Gaza, the place tens of 1000’s of Palestinians pushed from their houses by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders have been sheltering.
A strike on the United Nations-run al-Jawni Faculty in central Gaza on September 11 drew worldwide outcry after the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) mentioned six of its staffers had been among the many 18 reported deaths.
In keeping with the media workplace, Israel has bombed 181 displacement and shelter centres to this point.
William Deere, director of UNRWA’s Washington Workplace, informed Al Jazeera earlier this month that Israeli forces have focused a complete of 190 UN-run amenities in the midst of the warfare, “a lot of them greater than as soon as”. That’s regardless of the company sharing their GPS coordinates with the Israeli navy.
On August 1, at the least 15 individuals had been killed in an Israeli assault on the Dalal al-Mughrabi faculty in Gaza Metropolis, whereas on August 3, one other 16 had been killed within the bombing of the Hamama faculty, additionally in Gaza Metropolis.
On August 4, at the least 30 individuals had been killed in Israeli air raids on the Nassr and Hassan Salama faculties, west of Gaza Metropolis, whereas on August 8, at the least 17 had been killed in assaults on Abdul Fattah Hamouda and az-Zahra faculties, that are additionally situated in Gaza Metropolis.
And on August 10, greater than 100 individuals had been killed and 150 others wounded after Israeli forces bombed al-Tabin faculty, east of Gaza Metropolis.
At the very least 41,391 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s warfare on Gaza since final October, in keeping with Gaza’s Ministry of Well being, together with 119 deaths prior to now 72 hours.
It mentioned on Saturday that 95,760 individuals have been wounded within the Gaza Strip because the warfare started following the Hamas-led assault on Israel on October 7 final yr.
