Gaza Civil Defense said 17 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with one on a school run by a UN agency housing displaced Palestinians killing seven.
“Israeli fighter planes targeted the Al-Majida Wassila school, west of Gaza City,” in the north of the territory, killing seven people, including women and children, the newspaper said. AFP Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal.
Contacted by AFP, the army indicated that it was examining the facts. The school is run by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), but like many other establishments of its type, it has been transformed into a makeshift shelter for people displaced by the war in the Strip. Gaza, which has lasted for more than fourteen months. The vast majority of Gaza’s population has been displaced, often repeatedly.
Bassal also said that another Israeli strike in the afternoon on buildings in the Deir al-Balah municipality in central Gaza cost the life of the town’s mayor, Diab al-Jarw. , “as well as at least nine other people”. The Israeli army said in a statement that it had targeted Diab al-Jarw in a strike on “the humanitarian zone of Deir al-Balah”, accusing him of being “an agent of the military wing of Hamas”.
The attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 led to the death of 1,208 people on the Israeli side, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data and including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli offensive in retaliation left at least 44,930 dead in the Gaza Strip, the majority civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health for Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.
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