At least 15 people killed in Israeli attack in Jabalia
Israeli strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians at an UNRWA school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera’s Moath Kahlout, who is at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, reported that the majority of casualties are children and women.
Scene at Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘horrific’ after Israeli drone attack on Jabalia
The death toll is expected to surpass 19. The casualties were picked up on carts pulled by animals or civilian vehicles at the bomb site, arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital, and are on the floor of the emergency department, as described by our correspondent there.
The scene is horrific. They can’t keep up with the large influx of casualties coming to the hospital.
In the past few minutes, the Israeli military carried out a drone attack on tents inside a school that has turned into an evacuation centre for the past few months, housing hundreds of displaced families. The fire caused by the drone attack is spreading from one tent to another.
We are looking at a large number of tents being burned in this attack, causing further civilian casualties.
Israeli military says Jabalia school air raid a ‘precise strike’
The Israeli military has provided the names of 12 fighters that it claims were at the site of an air raid that hit a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, killing at least 19 people. The army said in a statement on Telegram it had conducted a “precise strike on an operational meeting” for Hamas and Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
“These terrorists were involved in rocket attacks against Israeli territory, as well as in planning and committing terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel in recent days,” it said, without providing evidence.
Hamas denies using Israeli targeted school in Jabalia
Hamas has denied using the UNRWA school in Jabalia for fighting purposes after the Israeli military claimed it targeted fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups operating from within the school. The building had been serving as a shelter for displaced families.
Death toll from Israel’s school attack in Gaza’s Jabalia rises to 28
There is no sort of respite on the ground in terms of the ongoing Israeli attacks, especially in the north and the central areas of Gaza, which have been the main two areas the Israeli military has been focusing on since the early hours of this morning.
One of the major attacks on the north of the Strip was conducted on one of the main UN-run shelters in Jabalia, a refugee camp. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, 28 Palestinians have been confirmed killed while 160 were wounded.
And this is not the first attack on evacuation centres. We have been observing and recording a tremendous number of attacks on UN-run shelters alongside shelters that are run by Gaza’s Ministry of Education.
As far as we know, the number of UN-run facilities that have been targeted since the war began in October 2023 has risen to more than 190 – hit or damaged without any sort of warning. These facilities are housing thousands of Palestinian families who have been displaced from their houses.
The bodies of Palestinians are brought to Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli attacks in Beit Lahiya
