Witnesses recount Israeli air raid on school-turned-shelter in Gaza City
Three witnesses have described an Israeli attack that hit a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, killing at least 22 people.
Randa Khalil said two missiles hit the place filled with “normal displaced people”.
“The Israelis hit us with two missiles without any prior warning. Suddenly, the missiles targeted us in the school. Three floors of the building were destroyed at once,” Khalil said, describing the sounds as “massive” and “scary”.
Rawand Ahmed said that “blood was all over the place, people were killed and torn up, pieces of their flesh were scattered on the walls and on our faces”.
“A woman who was about to give birth in a few days was killed and her fetus came out of her womb. The victims have made nothing wrong and haven’t commit any sins to be killed in such a brutal way,” Ahmed added.
Ahmed Masour said the survivors had “no other places to go to”. “We have no other alternatives. There are no safe houses and no safe shelters and no safe schools any more. Even the streets are not safe places for us,” he said.
Jordan condemns latest Israeli attack on Gaza school
Jordan’s foreign ministry denounced what it called a “systematic and continuous targeting of civilians and shelters for Palestinian displaced persons in the Gaza Strip”.
It referred to the killing of at least 22 Palestinians in an Israeli air raid that hit a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza City. Ministry spokesperson Sufyan al-Qudah said Jordan rejects, “Israel’s continued violations of international law and international humanitarian law.”
Al-Qudah stressed the need to provide civilians with basic services and humanitarian shelters, which international law stipulates must be protected at all costs, a statement said.
1 killed and 15 wounded after Israeli attack in northern Gaza
An attack on the al-Nazli Advertising and Publicity store in Gaza City killed one person and injured 15 others, the civil defence says.
Earlier, Israel bombed a school for war-displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, killing at least 22 Palestinians including 13 children and six women. Another 30 people were wounded in the attack in the besieged Zeitoun area.
Israel’s nearly yearlong war on Gaza has killed at least 41,000 Palestinians – mostly women and children – and wounded more than 95,000 others since October 2023.
Qassam Brigades hits Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza
The armed-wing of Hamas says its forces targeted two homes with Israeli forces stationed inside with four shells east of the Tannour neighborhood in the city of Rafah.
The attack led to an unspecified number of deaths and injuries, the armed group claimed.
Heavy fighting between Israel troops and Hamas fighters has increased in the past week as tanks and soldiers push deeper into the southern city. Last week, Israel’s army claimed Hamas’s Rafah Brigade had been “dismantled” with 2,000 fighters killed.
Central Gaza hospital warns of shutting down over lack of supplies
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital described in a statement the dire conditions facing the facility. Here’s a summary of what it said:
- The hospital may go out of service in “less than 10 days” as a result of depleted “quantities of oil and generator spare parts”.
- Situation poses a threat of “a real humanitarian disaster” for more than one million residents in central Gaza under fire by Israeli forces.
- The hospital has been operating on generators for a year without pause during the continuing war.
- World Health Organization, Red Cross, and other international organisations are urged to “immediately and urgently” address the hospital’s deteriorating conditions.
Heavy fighting continues in Gaza’s southern Rafah city
The situation is getting much more intense, especially in the southern part of Gaza where confrontations between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in Rafah city are still raging. The combat is particularly heavy in the eastern and central areas of Rafah.
This is despite the Israeli army’s claim that it managed to “dismantle” Hamas’s Rafah Brigades in the city last week.
Also, one of the main medical warehouses has been hit in Rafah without any sort of warning, causing a great deal of destruction. There was no word on casualties.
Images from an Israeli drone shot down in Gaza
Here is a summary of the footage captured by the drone and seen by Al Jazeera:
- Images show Israeli soldiers forcing an unarmed Palestinian man to strip on a street in the southern city of Khan Younis.
- Footage shows the bombing of Palestinian homes and extensive destruction in Khan Younis.
- A video shows a bomb being dropped directly from another drone onto an unarmed, wounded Palestinian.
