22 more killed in Israeli strikes on school housing displaced Palestinians
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Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on the territory killed at lead 22 Palestinians on Saturday, including seven at a UN school housing displaced people.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP there were seven killed, including women and children, and at least 10 wounded "when Israeli warplanes targeted the Al Ajida Wasila school west of Gaza City."
The school was run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees but like many such facilities it has been turned into a makeshift shelter for those displaced by the war in Gaza. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Catherine Russell has urged action as children in the Gaza Strip face bloodshed daily, Anadolu Agency reports. “The world cannot look away when so many children are exposed to daily bloodshed, hunger, disease, and cold,” Catherine Russell said in a statement yesterday.
“We urgently call on all parties to the conflict, and on those with influence over them, to take decisive action to end the suffering of children, to release all hostages, to ensure children’s rights are upheld, and to adhere to obligations under international humanitarian law.”
At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike near the municipality building in Deir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip where people gathered to receive aid, medics said.
Casualties were being carried by foot, on rickshaws and private cars from the site of the attack to the hospital, medics said. The strike killed the head of the Hamas-run administrative committee in central Gaza, Diab Ali Al Jaru, a Hamas source said.
A separate strike in Gaza City on a former shelter housing displaced people targeted Hamas fighters, the military said. At least seven people were killed in that attack, Palestinian medics said, including a woman and her baby.
A local journalist, Mohammed Baalousha who worked for a Gulf-based Al Mashhad television was killed in a separate airstrike in Gaza City, health officials said. The military was looking into the report, a spokesperson said.
At least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza in more than a year of war, according to The Committee to Protect Journalists.
Israel then launched an air, sea and land offensive that has killed almost 45,000 people, mostly civilians, according to authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, displaced nearly the entire population and left much of the enclave in ruins.
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