At least 24 Palestinians were killed overnight in two separate Israeli air strikes, including a strike on school shelters for displaced families in central Gaza, according to medical staff and civil defense officials.
The strike targets the Fahmi al-Jargawi school in Gaza, which has already housed hundreds of displaced people who have fled Beit Lahia, the northern town of Beit Lahia, which is currently under fierce Israeli military attack.
Hamas Gaza – A spokesman for the civil defense agency that operates said 20 bodies, including children, were recovered from the school after the fire engulfed two classrooms into living areas.
The Israeli military has contacted for comment.
“The flames are everywhere. I see the burnt bodies lying on the ground,” Rami Rafiq, a resident who lives across from the school, called on the phone with the BBC. “When my son saw the horrible scene, he fainted.”
Video footage shared online shows that the fire consumed part of the school, which contained graphic images of victims who were severely burned (including children) and survivors who were seriously injured.
Local reports said Mohammad al-Kasih, the investigative director of Hamas police in northern Gaza, as well as his wife and children.
The Ministry of Health, which runs Hamas, said an Israeli air strike hit a house in central Gaza shortly before the school strike, killing four people.
The twin attacks are part of a wider Israeli offensive that has escalated in the northern part of the enclave over the past week.
Israel killed nine of her 10 children on strike at the home of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza on Friday. Dr. Alaa al-Najjar's 11-year-old son was injured with her husband, Hamdi al-Najjar, who was in critical condition.
Nine kids – Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, competitors, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra – are only between the age of 12 months old.
Meanwhile, the Red Cross said two of its employees were killed during a strike at Khan Yunis’s home on Saturday.
Clark critics said Ahmad Abu Hilal, security guard at Ibrahim Eid and Rafa Red Cross Field Hospital who killed weapons pollution officers, “pointing to the intolerable civilian death toll in Gaza” and re-enjoying the appeal.
On Sunday, the head of a controversial U.S. and Israeli-approved organization tried to use a private company to provide assistance to Gaza.
Executive Director Jake Wood said in a statement from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that it is clear that the plan to establish a distribution hub will not be in line with the “humanitarian principle” of independence and neutrality.
Israel imposed a lockdown on Gaza on March 2, which lasted 11 weeks until it faced a warning of famine and growing international anger that it allowed limited aid to enter the territory.
Israeli military agency Kogat said on Saturday morning that 388 trucks carrying aid have entered Gaza since Monday. The United Nations says more aid – 500 to 600 trucks are required per day.
Meanwhile, 20 national and organizational discussions in Madrid were held on Sunday ending the war in Gaza. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares called for an arms embargo on Israel if it does not stop the attack.
Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza on October 7, 2023 in response to Hamas' cross-border attacks, in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage.
According to the region's Ministry of Health, at least 53,939 people have been killed in Gaza since it was in Gaza.
