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‘Israeli tanks stationed at the walls of schools in northern Gaza’

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are under an Israeli siege in northern Gaza. There is little to no food or water because Israeli forces have been preventing their entry as well as that of lifesaving aid.

Palestinians who try to escape the area are being shot at by Israeli drones. Israel is yet again targeting schools where displaced Palestinians have been sheltering.

At least two people were killed and several wounded in a strike on the Faluja School in Jabalia. The wounded have been taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital, even though doctors there are trying to evacuate patients following demands from the Israeli army for people to leave or face being bombed.

More than 300 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s nine-day siege of the north.

“What’s happening is a process of attrition, a siege, and artillery shelling,” Hany Hamad, a medical worker, said. “There are tanks and the occupation forces are stationed at the walls of these schools. They are surrounding Shadi Abu Ghazala School, Faluja School and Hafsa bint Omar Government School. The army is now at the rear walls of these schools.

“We hope that the world intervenes to lift the siege on Jabalia camp, find solutions for the wounded, and provide the necessary medical supplies to these injured people,” Hamad said.



At least 14 killed by Israeli strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza, hospital says

Israeli strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza have killed at least 14 people, including a family of eight, the Al-Aqsa hospital said Sunday.

At the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, eight members of a family were killed when the Israeli military struck a house they were sheltering in, according to the hospital. Another six people were killed when an Israeli tank shelled the Bureij refugee camp, it said.

CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment about the strikes.

One man, Alaa Abu Ghali, told a cameraman working for CNN in Gaza that his brother Waleed’s whole family was killed in the strike. “They struck them when they were asleep in safety in the house, the whole family — my brother, his children, and his wife — they have all been erased as a family … Waleed is gone along with his wife and children. We are all displaced from Rafah and have been in this house for five months. There was no prior warning.”

At the hospital yard, near the morgue, a young girl desperately clung to her brother who was killed in the Bureij camp, crying as she checked his lifeless body for a heartbeat.

“Leave me with him. I want my brother. Leave me in his arms. He is going to heaven. Wake up! Stop joking. He is breathing,” the child cried as she hugged her brother with her mother. “God loves you; that’s why he took you,” she said.

Two children wounded in Israeli army raid in occupied West Bank

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says two children suffered bullet injuries in an Israeli raid on Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army has stepped up its raids, mass arrests and home demolitions in towns across the occupied Palestinian territory since the start of the war on Gaza.

More than 750 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers since last October.