More than 20 Palestinians killed in Israel's overnight strikes as genocidal war on Gaza rages

More than 20 Palestinian have been killed and many more injured in Israel's overnight airstrikes on the Gaza Strip as the regime’s attacks on residential areas and schools sheltering displaced people continue unabated.

In the early hours of Thursday, 11 Palestinians were killed in a airstrike on a home in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza, according to official Palestinian news agencies.

Medical sources reported that the majority of the victims were women and children, with their burnt bodies transported to Kamal Adwan Hospital, while several others remain under the rubble.

Israeli forces also targeted a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least six Palestinians and injuring several more.

Online videos showed the victims' bodies covered with blankets and placed in body bags at a hospital.

In another attack on a residential apartment in the Tall az-Zaatar area in the northern Jabalia refugee camp, at least three Palestinians were killed and a number of others, including women and children were injured, according to Gaza’s civil defense.

Additionally, a mother and her child were killed in a separate Israeli attack on the Abu Daqqa family home in the southeastern area of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.

Israel has killed and wounded dozens more Palestinians in Gaza as its military has ordered new evacuation orders, and its forces have advanced deeper into the overcrowded central city.

Israel bombs yet another school in Gaza City

The attack on Salah Al-Din School comes as the death toll in Gaza has surpassed the 40,200 mark, according to the Health Ministry.

The recent attacks came two days after Israel’s horrific attack on Salah al-Din School, a sheltering school for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, which killed and injured more than 20 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, denounced Wednesday’s strike on the Gaza City school, saying some victims “were burnt to death” in the “horrific attack on one of our UNRWA schools.”

“Is there any humanity left?” Lazzarini wrote on the social media platform X. “Gaza is no place for children anymore. They are the first casualty of this merciless war.

Israel has hit more than 500 Gaza schools in the past 10 months, according to an Al Jazeera report as schools in the Gaza Strip have been used to shelter nearly two million displaced Palestinians.

Within a 10-day period in August, the regime's military forces struck five schools in Gaza City, killing more than 179 people and injuring scores more.

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, schools are considered civilian objects and should be protected from attacks.

The Israeli regime has killed more than 40,223 and wounded 92,981 Palestinians since the regime launched its campaign of death and destruction in Gaza on October 7, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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