CAIRO/JERUSALEM/GAZA: At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian health officials said, an attack that Israel said targeted militants who were using the compound. The Hamas-run government media office said 15 children and eight women were among those killed in the strike in the central town of Deir Al-Balah.Over 100 people were injured.
At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, ambulances rushed the wounded in for treatment. Some people arrived on foot, their clothes stained with blood. Reuters footage showed people returning to the site of the bombing to check on their belongings, and fires burning in the area. Walls were blasted and debris scattered in the schoolyard.
On Saturday, the military said it had instructed Palestinians to evacuate the southern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis, where it was going to “forcefully operate” against militant groups, and move to the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone.
Israeli attacks in Khan Younis on Saturday killed 14 people, said officials.
At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, ambulances rushed the wounded in for treatment. Some people arrived on foot, their clothes stained with blood. Reuters footage showed people returning to the site of the bombing to check on their belongings, and fires burning in the area. Walls were blasted and debris scattered in the schoolyard.
On Saturday, the military said it had instructed Palestinians to evacuate the southern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis, where it was going to “forcefully operate” against militant groups, and move to the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone.
Israeli attacks in Khan Younis on Saturday killed 14 people, said officials.