Death toll rises in Israeli attacks on Gaza shelters
At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and 30 wounded in Israeli air attacks on two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.
Medics in Gaza told Anadolu news agency that most of the victims were women and children in the attack that hit the Dar al-Arqam and Shaaban al-Rayes schools in the Tuffah neighbourhood.
Witnesses added that the Israeli attack caused huge destruction to the schools and nearby residential buildings.
A Palestinian man carries a wounded boy, after an Israeli strike on a school, into the al-Ahli Arab Hospital
Israeli army claims deadly attacks on schools targeted ‘command and control centres’
The Israeli army claims, without providing evidence, that the deadly attacks carried out on the two school shelters were a “precise strike”. In a statement on Telegram, the army said the attack targeted “terrorists who were operating in command and control centres” in the buildings.
The schools, which housed Palestinians who had been displaced due to the war, killed at least 15 and wounded 30.
Not many options for Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza
There are not many options available for Palestinians forced to flee northern Gaza. The options that are available are dangerous.
People end up in tent camps; they end up in many of the severely damaged buildings that are already subjected to many attacks by drones, quadcopters and fighter jets across Gaza City.
Just as we report, more attacks took place in the past couple of hours in al-Tuffah district in eastern Gaza City, where many of the people who were displaced from the northern part of the Gaza Strip had ended up in the residential buildings in that area.
They became the victims of these unpredictable attacks on evacuation centres. Only a few of them made their way to the central area because the Netzarim juncture now serves as a death trap for many people.
Fire brigades try to extinguish the fire that broke out in the building targeted by the Israeli army in Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, Thursday
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