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Israel pounds schools, hospital in deadly strikes on Gaza
Gaza’s Government Media Office said that since Israel’s war on Gaza began, Israeli forces have targeted 172 shelters hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs), of which 152 were schools.
It said at least 1,040 people have been killed inside those shelters.
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) official Nebal Farsakh, who was at the scene of the Israeli strikes on the two schools said that its ambulance teams managed to evacuate several Palestinians who were wounded but “many are still missing under the rubble.”
Farsakh described “horrific scenes” with “women screaming” as they looked for their children in the debris.
“This attack is again another proof that there is no safe place in Gaza. These two schools are housing displaced civilians who have been forced to leave multiple times, and now even they have been forced to flee another time after this attack,” she said.
“Israel has been systematically targeting civilians.”
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli forces also bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the yard of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, killing at least five and wounding 18 others.
Gaza health officials said at least 44 Palestinians were killed on Sunday.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said on Sunday that at least 39,583 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7.
Up to 91,398 others have been injured in the 10 months of war, the ministry said in a statement.
A 34-year-old Palestinian killed two Israeli settlers and wounded three others in an alleged stabbing attack on Sunday before being shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said.
The stabbings took place during morning rush hour in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv. The attacker stabbed people near a gas station and a park.
The Hamas group said in a statement that the stabbing attack was a “natural response” to Israeli attacks on Palestinians and to the assassination of the group’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, last week in Tehran.
Hamas says it has initiated a broad consultation process to select a new leader following the assassination of its political chief in the Iranian capital. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Haniyeh was killed by a “short-range projectile” and threatened Israel with a “severe” response.