Gaza: Israeli army targeted in past 24 hours 2 UN-run schools killing many
By Nour Abuaisha
Gaza City, Palestine, (AA): In the last 24 hours, 77 Palestinians were killed and 221 others injured by Israeli Defence Forces attacks in Gaza Strip according to Ministry of Health. This brings to the number of Palestinians killed since 7 October to more than 36,731 most of them women and children, and over 83,530 others injured by Israeli forces’ bombardment, according to local health authorities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Palestinian movement Hamas denounced on Friday the Israeli airstrike that hit a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in western Gaza City, saying the latest attack is part of an ongoing “genocide” perpetrated by Israel.
Earlier on Friday, an Israeli attack on Asma School, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), resulted in the deaths of three Palestinians and injuries to 15 others.
The incident marks the second attack on a UNRWA school within two days. On Thursday, an Israeli strike on a school housing 6,000 displaced persons in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed 40 people.
“The continuous Zionist targeting of UNRWA schools, including the latest attack on a school in the Al-Shati Camp in western Gaza City, which caused casualties among the displaced, is part of the ongoing genocide committed by the fascist occupation government against our people,” Hamas said in a statement.
The statement said, “The occupation has destroyed or damaged around 148 UN facilities, killing hundreds of displaced people, most of whom are children, women, and the elderly.”
Hamas called on the international community to “to form investigative committees for these crimes and hold the criminal leaders of the occupation accountable”.
Earlier in the day, UNRWA demanded investigations into all Israeli violations against the agency, including attacks on its buildings and centers that house displaced civilians.
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.
Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attacks on 7 October is at least 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
Additional report by The Muslim News
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