Another 27 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on Gaza, 19 of them in the north, where a military siege has continued for more than a month.
At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces bombed a school serving as a shelter for displaced persons in northern Gaza.
The Gaza Civil Defense Agency said Thursday that the attack occurred at a school in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp. From dawn, Israel’s assault on Gaza has left 27 Palestinians dead, 19 of them in the northern part of the country, which has been under Israeli military siege for more than a month.
Medics said at least 30 people were injured in the explosion at Shati Elementary School, which is linked to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Earlier this week, Israel formally notified the United Nations that it was severing ties with UNRWA, the main humanitarian aid agency for Gaza residents.
Al Jazeera spokesman Hind Khoudary said Thursday in a report from Deir Bala in central Gaza that Israeli forces have been targeting densely populated homes and shelters in northern Gaza in recent weeks.
“Because their homes were bombed, UN shelters and school shelters are now the only places where Palestinians are staying and seeking refuge,” she said.
“How would a person on this planet cope without food, without water, without medicine, without aid, without constant bombing and shelling? is trapped inside.”
The Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, which began last October, has left at least 43,469 Palestinians dead and 102,561 injured, most of them women and children.
The Gaza war began shortly after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing at least 1,139 people, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli statistics.
evacuation order
Meanwhile, the Israeli military on Thursday issued a mandatory evacuation order for several areas in northern Gaza after Palestinian fighters fired rockets.
“We would like to inform you that the designated area is considered a dangerous combat zone. For your safety, please move south immediately,” Israeli military spokesman Avichai Adlai said on the X I mentioned it in a post.
Palestinians in the north have been forcibly displaced multiple times and continue to feel constantly displaced. The Israeli military has also repeatedly targeted areas it has designated as so-called “safe zones.”
Israeli tanks moved into Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza as drones broadcast evacuation orders, which were also communicated on social media and text messages on residents’ cellphones.
One resident told Reuters that after Israeli forces expelled most Palestinians from Jabalia, another area in northern Gaza, they were “bombing everywhere to drive everyone out, killing people on the roads and in their homes.” I’m doing it,” he said.
Palestinian officials say Israel has been carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians by blocking aid to Jabalia, Beit Rahiya and Beit Hanoun since the siege in northern Gaza began last month.
Israeli forces insisted on Wednesday that they needed to withdraw from Jabaliya and begin a withdrawal from Beit Lahya to fight Hamas fighters who say they have regrouped there.
The military also rejected reports that it would not allow aid to be delivered to that part of the enclave. According to the newspaper, 300 aid trucks from the United Arab Emirates arrived at the port of Ashdod and will be sent to Gaza via the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing in the north and the Karem Abu Salem (Kelem Shalom) crossing in the south. It is said that he is planning to do so.
But U.N. aid agencies have repeatedly said the amount of aid flowing into Gaza is not enough to meet the needs of the Palestinians, where an average of 500 aid trucks were flowing in each day before the war.
