Death toll from Israeli attack on school rises to nine
A source at al-Shifa Hospital tells us that the death toll following an Israeli bombing of a school housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City has risen to nine.
Israeli strikes target residential neighbourhoods across Gaza City
The skies above Gaza are crowded with drones. Unfortunately, as soon as we see drones we know something is going to happen.
We’ve been seeing air strikes rocking residential neighbourhoods across Gaza City and the further northern territories, including on a school in the northern part of the city, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.
The school was housing displaced Palestinians. Nine people were killed, including a man, woman and children from one family. The strikes happened after midnight, at a time when people were sleeping.
In another strike targeting a house adjacent to a school also housing displaced Palestinians, six people were killed.
‘Dystopian horror show’: Gaza children killed in more than half of aid-related attacks
Children have been killed or injured in more than half of the attacks at food distribution sites in Gaza since the US-and-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating four weeks ago, says Save the Children.
Of the 19 deadly incidents reported, the organisation found that children were among the casualties in 10 of them.
“Some families in Gaza are so desperate – in some cases due to a lack of a healthy adult – that they are sending children to collect food at distribution points, unavoidably exposing them to the risk of being shot by Israeli forces,” said Save the Children in a statement.
Since May 27, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and at least 3,000 injured by Israeli forces while trying to access aid, “either at or on route to GHF distribution points, or while attempting to approach the very few other aid convoys delivered by the UN or NGOs, according to OHCHR”, the organisation added.
Save the Children staff have witnessed people killed while trying to get aid, the organisation stated.
“No-one wants to get aid from these distribution points and who can blame them – it’s a death sentence. People are terrified of being killed. One colleague told us today that even though his family is down to eating one meal a day, he won’t go to a GHF distribution, because he believes his life is worth more than a bag of flour,” Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, Ahmad Alhendawi, said.
“And to add to the dystopian horror show, children are also being killed and injured trying to reach aid – aid they have a right to.”
Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 25
