At least 25 Palestinians were killed Sunday evening in two Israeli airstrikes against a school housing displaced people and a Civil Defense center in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.
GAZA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — At least 25 Palestinians were killed Sunday evening in two Israeli airstrikes on a school housing displaced people and a Civil Defense center in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.
Marwan al-Hams, a Gaza health authority official, told Xinhua that 21 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school for displaced people in Khan Younis, while dozens of others, mostly women and children, had been injured.
A Xinhua photographer at the scene saw the bloodied bodies of the dead and injured in the rubble of the top floor of the school, which belongs to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA).
The Israeli military has not yet commented on the attack.
In central Gaza, four Civil Defense personnel, including a journalist, were killed in an airstrike on an emergency post in the Nuseirat refugee camp, sources said.
In a statement released later in the day, the Israeli military said its air force attacked the Nuseirat camp to neutralize a site “used by terrorists” to plan and carry out attacks against the forces. Israeli defense systems.■
