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Israeli military bombs home in Khan Younis, killing at least 4: Report

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli fighter jets bombed the family home of journalist Ahmed al-Zard southeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing his brother, uncle and two cousins.

Al-Zard, who was seriously injured in the attack along with his mother and another brother, is currently in hospital, Wafa said. Others remain trapped under the rubble of the destroyed home.

Israeli forces fired on anyone approaching the house, initially preventing ambulance crews from reaching the wounded, Wafa added.

Israeli military announces attack on third school in Gaza

The Israeli military says it bombed a school in central Gaza that it alleged was being used as a Hamas “command and control complex”.

The exact location of the school, which it named only as “Brig High School”, was not immediately clear. The army also did not provide any evidence to back up its claim that the school was being used by the Palestinian group.

It was not immediately clear if the attack resulted in any casualties.

This is the third attack by the Israeli military on schools across Gaza in the past few hours, after earlier assaults on the al-Amal Institute for Orphans and the Muscat School, both in Gaza City, killed at least nine people and injured dozens more.

Both facilities were serving as shelters for displaced Palestinians.


Israeli attacks Gaza shelters as about 90 percent of residents displaced

As we’ve been reporting over the past few hours, the Israeli military has attacked two schools in Gaza City housing displaced Palestinians, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more.

Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip since last October has displaced an estimated 1.9 million Palestinians – about 90 percent of the besieged enclave’s population, according to the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA).

Many have experienced multiple forced displacements as a result of persistent Israeli relocation orders and attacks.

In mid-September, the UN said 55 ongoing mass evacuation orders across Gaza covered more than 85 percent of the Palestinian territory.

Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said this week that “repeated displacements are also separating families”, as well as “eroding social protection systems, particularly for women and children”.

As the rainy season approaches, already dire living conditions in Gaza will deteriorate further, OCHA also warned, putting hundreds of thousands of displaced people at heightened risk of additional displacement and health hazards.


Palestinians rest near the rubble of destroyed homes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, September 30


Dozens of Palestinians killed, wounded in south Gaza

The bodies of more than 30 people – including women and children – were recovered after Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis following a ground assault that lasted for several hours.

Saleh al-Hams, head of the nursing department at the European Gaza Hospital, said dozens of dead and wounded people were brought to his facility and Nasser Hospital from 3am (00:00 GMT).

Some of the injured are in critical condition, he said. Israeli forces carried out heavy air strikes as ground troops staged incursions into three neighbourhoods in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city.


The building after Israeli army attacks in a Khan Younis neighbourhood