Fifteen kids and eight girls had been amongst these killed in an assault on the Khadija college in Deir el-Balah.
Greater than 50 individuals have been killed in Israeli strikes in central and southern Gaza, and an airstrike hit a college the place 1000’s of displaced individuals had been sheltering, Palestinian officers say.
At the least 30 individuals have been killed in an Israeli assault on the Khadija college in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the Palestinian Well being Ministry stated on Saturday.
Fifteen kids and eight girls had been amongst these killed within the assault on the varsity in Deir el-Balah, the Gaza Authorities Media Workplace stated, and greater than 100 individuals had been wounded.
The Israeli army stated in a press release that it had attacked a “Hamas command and management heart contained in the Khadija college compound in central Gaza.”
The assertion stated the varsity was getting used to launch assaults on troops and as a weapons depot and that it had warned civilians earlier than the assault.
‘Chaos’ within the hospital
At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, ambulances transported wounded Palestinians to the medical heart following the Israeli army assault on the Khadija college. A number of the wounded additionally arrived on foot, their garments stained with blood.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Al-Aqsa Hospital, described “a state of chaos contained in the hospital as docs attempt to present wounded Palestinians with important medical care.”
“The scenario is totally determined; everybody in hospital has suffered critical accidents. They’re being handled on the ground, in all wards, and all of the beds are over capability.”
Hamas, the Palestinian group that guidelines Gaza, stated the “Khadija college bloodbath is against the law that confirms the Israeli enemy’s departure from all human values ​​and its defiance of all legal guidelines of struggle.”
“We name on the worldwide group and the United Nations to interrupt the coverage of silence and take motion to pressure the occupation to finish its crimes,” he added.
Based on Palestinian officers, at the least 39,258 individuals have been killed and greater than 90,000 wounded in Israel’s struggle on Gaza since October. Israel launched the struggle after Hamas-led assaults on southern Israel on Oct. 7 killed at the least 1,139 individuals, based on an Al Jazeera tally primarily based on Israeli statistics, and about 250 individuals had been taken prisoner.
The assault on the varsity on Saturday got here after at the least 23 individuals had been killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the ministry stated.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, stated the assaults on Khan Younis had been reportedly carried out earlier than leaflets with evacuation orders had been dropped, cellphone calls had been made and textual content messages had been despatched from the Israeli army to Palestinians within the space.
Some 170 individuals have been killed “and tons of wounded” in an Israeli operation in Khan Younis since Monday, Gaza’s civil protection company stated.
The United Nations humanitarian company stated on Friday that greater than 180,000 individuals had been displaced within the Khan Younis space between Monday and Thursday, after the Israeli army on Monday issued evacuation orders for components of the southern metropolis, together with an space beforehand designated as a protected humanitarian zone.
UN businesses have condemned the displacement of Gaza’s civilian inhabitants and Israel’s army assaults on areas beforehand declared as protected humanitarian zones.