Officials report that an Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians has killed at least 15 people in central Gaza. Also, at least 50 Palestinians were also injured in the shelling of the school in central Gaza. The war which began after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on northern Israel on 7 October last year – killing about 1,200 people in northern Israel and taking more than 200 hostage in Gaza, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths so far.
Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence Agency reports that the site in Nuseirat camp was struck by a volley of artillery on Sunday, killing entire families and wounding dozens more.
However, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports.
Earlier, five children were reported to have been killed by a drone strike while playing on a street corner in northern Gaza.
A civil defence spokesman informed the press that the attack on al-Mufti school, which shelters hundreds of displaced people from around Gaza, had injured at least 50 people and more than a dozen were killed. He also highlighted the main areas of conflict in Gaza in recent days to be the north, where Israeli forces have been intensifying attacks for over a week as part of a major ground operation. “Hundreds have since been killed,” says Gazan authorities.
while residents of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya have reported being cut off from nearby Gaza City, Israeli tanks have been seen on the outskirts of the territory’s largest city. Furthermore, hospitals in the area are running out of supplies, although the World Health Organisation said a joint operation with the Red Cross had resupplied two of them -after nine days of attempts. In a year of war, the Hamas-run health ministry has reported more than 42,000 people killed. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been displaced by the war – many of whom have been forced to move multiple times to escape.
The IDF is yet responded to questions about the incident.
