Israeli forces have killed more than 30 Palestinians, including women and children, and wounded nearly 100 others across Gaza in the past 24 hours.
17 Palestinians, including children, were killed and 26 others wounded in Israeli attacks near a tent area housing displaced families in Khan Younis. Another Israeli attack on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 23 Palestinians and injured 73 more, according to hospital records.
The situation in Gaza’s hospitals has reached a critical point, with medical facilities overwhelmed and healthcare workers exhausted. The Health Ministry has urgently called for international medical delegations to be granted access to Gaza to provide much-needed support.
Since 7 October, Israeli attacks have killed at least 38,713 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded 89,166 others in Gaza.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reports that nearly 70% of its schools in Gaza have been bombed by Israel since the attacks began. These schools, intended as safe havens, have become Israeli targets. Over 95% of these schools were being used as shelters at the time they were hit by Israeli attacks, resulting in the deaths of 539 civilians who sought refuge in UNRWA facilities.
“Nowhere is safe. The blatant disregard for UN premises and humanitarian law must stop,” UNRWA stated on X (formerly Twitter). This stark declaration underscores the perilous conditions facing the displaced Palestinians who have sought shelter in these facilities.
Israeli attacks have also killed numerous journalists. Muhammad Abdullah Mishmish, the programme director at Sawt Al-Awsa Radio, was recently killed, bringing the total number of journalists killed in by Israeli forces to 160. The Government Media Office in Gaza confirmed his death but did not provide details on the circumstances.
Inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, chaos reigns as a large number of critically injured individuals from the bombed school in the Nuseirat refugee camp flood the facility. The Israeli attack on Al-Razi middle school in Nuseirat occurred during rush hour, exacerbating the death toll as the streets around the overcrowded school were teeming with people.
Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, reveals the aftermath of the Israeli bombing at the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The footage shows a young man carrying the remnants of rockets that targeted the school. He expressed grief and anger, lamenting that displaced Palestinians were being killed by Israeli forces using American missiles. “We found children beheaded and people turned into corpses and body parts inside the school. I cannot describe the scene from the horror of the bombing,” he said.
The graphic footage documents the extensive destruction and the gruesome scattering of body parts in the school’s courtyard, which had been crowded with displaced people.
The past few days have seen direct, deliberate attacks on six UNRWA schools in Gaza by Israeli forces. These institutions have been transformed into shelters and evacuation centres for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from northern Gaza, Gaza City, and more recently from Rafah and Mawasi.