At least 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces attacked a school in the Gaza Strip sheltering displaced people, sources told Al Jazeera. Dozens more people were killed overnight, including two journalists, in waves of attacks across the besieged Palestinian territories.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that several other people were injured in Sunday’s Israeli attack on the Khalil Oweida school in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir Bala in central Gaza, said witnesses said many of those injured in the school attack suffered “serious injuries.”
“They have nowhere to go as the Israeli army surrounds the area with tanks and armored vehicles and shells the school with heavy artillery,” he said.
Among the dead was a family of four, including two children, whose classroom they were evacuating to was hit by shelling.
“Many of the injured are in the school’s courtyard and other classrooms. They cannot receive treatment as none of Beit Hanoun’s hospitals are operational,” he said, adding that the attack on the school occurred “without prior warning. He pointed out that it happened.
Palestinian news agency WAFA also confirmed 15 deaths.
WAFA reported that those who remained at the besieged school, many of them women and children, were forced to leave the area and make their way to a military checkpoint set up on Salahuddin Street. Ta. Several of the men were reportedly detained.
The school siege continues.
The besieged region’s health ministry said at least 46 Palestinians had been killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, adding that five “massacres” were carried out by Israeli forces in the same period.
Of the total deaths, at least 14 were reported in southern Gaza City, including the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where residential buildings in the Abu Iskandar area were attacked by Israeli forces.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic also reported that four of these deaths were the result of an Israeli military raid on a house on Al Nafaq Street in central Gaza City.
Three more people were killed in a separate attack on a house in the Zeitun district south of Gaza City.
Palestinian news agency WAFA confirmed that tents sheltering displaced people in Beit Hanoun were attacked by Israeli airstrikes, killing several civilians and injuring many others.
Two other people were killed in another Israeli attack on the area around Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, WAFA added.
Four Palestinians were also killed in Shujaya and Khan Younis.
At least 135 other people were reported injured in Sunday’s Israeli attack.
The deadly Israeli raid and bombing occurred just one day after Israeli forces raided a school in Gaza City, killing several people, and just two days after a massacre at the Nuseyrat refugee camp.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud reported late on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohamed Jabr al-Kulinawi was killed along with his wife and child in an Israeli airstrike targeting his home in the Braei refugee camp in central Gaza late on Saturday. admitted that.
Egypt-based Al-Ahram newspaper reported that Al-Kulinawi is affiliated with the Sanad News Agency, a separate organization from Al-Jazeera’s Sanad Verification Unit. Mr al-Kulinawi was the second journalist killed on Saturday.
Al-Mashhad Media announced early Saturday that journalist Mohamed Varosha was killed in an Israeli military attack in Gaza.
George Eid, Al Mashhad’s news director, confirmed Varosha’s killing, saying it was a targeted attack.
Varosha is a Palestinian journalist who last year reported on the decomposing body of a premature baby left in the ICU by Israeli forces at Al Nasr Hospital.
The separate killings of al-Kulinawi and Varosha bring the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 196. The Committee to Protect Journalists has compiled a record of the killings of at least 137 Palestinian journalists.
On Tuesday, two separate reports from press freedom groups said Israel had carried out a “genocide” of journalists in Gaza.
The Israeli government denied the accusations.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.
