Israel bombs northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp
Israeli forces have bombed the Qurum area in Jabalia, northern Gaza, leaving unidentified number of “dead and wounded”, according to Palestinian media.
Israeli attack on UNRWA-run school kills 13 people
Thirteen Palestinians, most of them children and women, have been killed after Israeli jets attacked a central Gaza school, where displaced people were staying, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Local sources told the agency that Israel’s warplanes bombed al-Jaouni School in the city of Nuseirat, reporting that dozens of others have been injured.
Heartbreaking scenes at Al-Aqsa hospital after Nuseirat attacks
Over the past hour, ambulances have not stopped carrying injured Palestinians to Al-Aqsa Hospital. We’re talking about at least four Palestinians in every ambulance that arrived here.
Most of the ambulances were directed straight away to the part [of the hospital] where families of killed Palestinians can say their last goodbyes.
We saw heartbreaking scenes, including a teenager who could not believe that his father was killed as he said his last goodbye, crying to his father. We also saw here in the morgue of the Al-Aqsa Hospital decapitated Palestinians and others who had been struck into pieces.
So far we know that the Israeli forces attacked an UNRWA school in Nuseirat which has hundreds of displaced families. Most of those who have been injured are children who had been playing in the streets in the school.
This is not only happening in Nuseirat. In the past couple of hours, Israeli forces have also been targeting journalists, UNRWA aid workers and policemen.
The aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp
The rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, July 6
Death toll in Israeli attack on UN school rises to 16: Gaza Media Office
The Government Media Office in Gaza has released an update on the situation at the al-Jaouni school, a shelter for people displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
It said that more than 16 people have been killed and 75 injured by the attack on the school in Nuseirat refugee camp, which houses “approximately 7,000” people.
“Since the beginning of the genocide war, the occupation [Israel] has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centers inside the Nuseirat refugee camp”, the statement reads, adding that there are only two functioning hospitals in central Gaza and that they are “unable to provide health and medical services as a result of the large overcrowding and the many infections that have reached them over the past months”.
The office closed by condemning this attack.
Fast facts: Nuseirat refugee camp
The Nuseirat refugee camp was established in the aftermath of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 in which more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced, leading to the creation of Israel.
The camp takes its name from a local Bedouin tribe and is located in the central Gaza Strip. Before Israel’s war on Gaza, it had been densely populated, home to 85,409 Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA.
Gaza Government Media Office says that it now hosts more than 250,000 people, many of whom were displaced from other parts of the Gaza Strip as they fled Israeli attacks.
The camp has been the target of Israeli raids and attacks since the start of the war:
- On October 18, the Grand Nuseirat Mosque was mostly destroyed.
- On March 17, 36 members of the Tabatibi family were killed in an Israeli air strike.
- On April 11, the Israeli army launched its first ground operation into the camp, attacking two mosques, a UN-run school and the Malaysian school, killing at least four people.
- On April 12, Sami Shehadeh, a journalist with Turkish broadcaster TRT, had his foot amputated after being wounded in an Israeli attack there.
- On June 6, the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad al-Maghari, was killed in an Israeli raid, and 40 people were killed in the Israeli air attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat, according to the director of Gaza’s Government Media Office.
- On June 8, the Nuseirat massacre took place when Israeli forces killed at least 274 Palestinians to free four Israeli captives
- On June 18, Local media reported at least 17 deaths in the Nuseirat refugee camp following a night of heavy Israeli bombardment.
