Israel bombs school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza, kills 16
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people at Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the attack on the school also wounded more than 50 people.
Video from the scene shows people running in a smoke-filled street covered in dust and rubble to help the wounded.
The attack, reports say, targeted the upper floors of the school, which is located near a busy market.
Spokesman of the Gaza Civil Emergency Service Mahmoud Basal said that the number of dead could rise as many of the wounded are in critical condition.
He reiterated that the military’s attack on the school once again demonstrates that nowhere in Gaza is safe for people who have left their houses to seek shelters.
Earlier in the day, the regime’s forces killed at least ten people, including nine members of a family, when they heavily bombarded a house sheltering displaced people at the refugee camp.
Medics said one child was among the people killed in the house.
Nuseirat, a busy and crowded refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, had come under attack on June 8, when Israeli forces killed at least 276 Palestinians before they retrieved four Israeli captives.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the regime's forces killed at least 29 Palestinians and wounded 100 others across the besieged coastal strip in the past 24 hours.
More than 38,100 Palestinians have lost their lives since the Israeli regime launched its bloodiest-ever military offensive on Gaza in early October.
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