Occupied Al-Quds: The Hamas authorities in Gaza said an Israeli strike on Saturday on a UN-run school where thousands of displaced were sheltering killed 16 people.
The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, which condemned the strike as an “odious massacre”, said 50 injured were taken to hospital from the school.
Some 7,000 people were sheltering in the school at the time of the attack, the Hamas government press office said. Dozens of people scrambled through the rubble after the strike to find survivors.
The press office said the school was run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and most of the casualties were “children, women, and elderly”.
“This is the fourth time they have targeted the school without warning,” said one woman, Samah Abu Amsha, who told how some children were killed as they read the Holy Quran in a class when the missile hit.
Five Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said, bringing the number of media workers killed since October 7 to at least 158.
Bodies of 3 handcuffed Palestinians recovered in eastern Rafah
The bodies of three handcuffed Palestinians have been recovered east of Rafah, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
The victims were shot following their release.
Videos on Telegram channels showed their family members in shock and crying when they were identified.
Over the months, bodies have been recovered in Gaza, with some showing signs of mutilation and torture amounting to war crimes, according to Palestinian officials.
Six civilians killed in Israeli air raid on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan
Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital has received six bodies after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, according to the Wafa news agency.
Rescue workers recover three bodies from Gaza City
Gaza’s Civil Defence crews recovered the bodies after Israeli forces bombed a house in the al-Mina neighbourhood in Gaza City, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The Israeli attack took place at dawn, AJA reported.
At least 38,098 people have been killed and 87,705 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
