A Palestinian man inspects the injury at a college housing displaced individuals after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, amid the battle between Israel and Hamas, at Seaside refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis, September 22, 2024. | Picture credit score: Reuters
Civil protection rescuers in Gaza Metropolis stated an Israeli strike on Sunday (22 September 2024) on a college turned shelter killed no less than seven individuals, and the Israeli navy stated it had focused Hamas militants.
The overwhelming majority of the two.4 million individuals residing within the besieged Gaza Strip have been displaced no less than as soon as by the struggle, sparked by Hamas’s assault on Israel on October 7, and lots of have sought refuge at school buildings.
Israeli assaults on faculties became shelters in Gaza
Civil defence company spokesman Mahmoud Bassal reported “seven martyrs and a number of other wounded, together with severe instances, on account of the Israeli shelling of the Kafr Qasim faculty” within the Al-Shati refugee camp.
He stated a whole lot of displaced Gazans had been taking refuge there.
The Israeli navy stated it was concentrating on Palestinian militants working from the college compound and that its forces had taken steps “to mitigate the chance of hurt to uninvolved civilians”, together with by the usage of “exact munitions” and surveillance.
He stated the air power had “carried out a exact strike towards Hamas terrorists within the northern Gaza Strip” who had been “working from a compound” within the faculty advanced.
The navy assertion didn’t present data on casualties.
The assault was the most recent in a collection of Israeli strikes on faculty buildings housing displaced individuals in Gaza, the place preventing has raged for almost a 12 months.
On Saturday (21 September 2024), the civil defence company reported that an Israeli strike on one other school-turned-shelter, additionally in Gaza Metropolis, had killed 21 individuals. The military stated the goal of the assault was militants.
Faculty that welcomes displaced individuals
An assault on the United Nations-run Al-Jawni faculty in central Gaza on September 11 sparked worldwide protests after the UN company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, stated six of its workers had been amongst 18 reported lifeless.
The Israeli navy accuses Hamas of hiding at school buildings the place 1000’s of Gazans have sought refuge, a cost the Palestinian militant group denies.
At the very least 41,391 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed within the Israeli navy marketing campaign in Gaza for the reason that struggle started, based on figures offered by the Ministry of Well being. The United Nations has acknowledged that these figures are dependable.
The latest battle resulted within the deaths of 1,205 individuals on the Israeli facet, most of them civilians, based on a AFP depend based mostly on official Israeli figures, which incorporates hostages killed in captivity.
Of the 251 individuals taken hostage that day, 97 are nonetheless held contained in the Gaza Strip, together with 33 who the Israeli navy says are lifeless.
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