Dozens killed, 160 injured in Israeli bombing of school in northern Gaza

In one of the deadliest attacks, dozens of people were killed after Israeli warplanes targeted the Abu Hussein School, housing displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza.

According to Gaza’s government media office on Thursday, at least 28 Palestinians were confirmed killed, while 160 others were wounded.

The attack targeted the school as displaced people gathered to take their lunch, it noted.

Fires broke out in the tents of the displaced individuals in the schoolyard because of the bombing.

The medical source said that the death toll from the attack is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.

Several of the bodies were brought to Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda Hospitals, two medical sources reported.

Hamas condemns Israeli ‘ethnic cleansing’  

In a statement, Hamas strongly denounced the latest Israeli strike on the school.

“The Zionist occupying forces bombed the tents of the displaced Palestinian in the Abu Hussein school in the Jabalia camp, during which dozens of people, including a large number of women and children, were killed and injured.”

“It is a horrible and repeated crime in the framework of the criminal plans of the Zionist regime to forcibly displace Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip,” the statement read.

The Palestinian group further said that northern Gaza has been “exposed to the Holocaust, genocide and systematic displacement of Palestinians in front of the eyes of the world.”

Hamas questioned the meaningful silence of international organizations in the face of Israeli crimes and massacres.

Thursday was another deadly day for Palestinians in Gaza where fresh Israeli strikes continued to pound the blockaded territory.

The Israeli military on October 6 began its third onslaught on northern Gaza since the start of its aggression in Gaza last year.

Palestinians say Israel this time is seeking to occupy the northern Gaza Strip and displace its residents.

Hundreds of people have been reported killed in the latest aggression amid a tight siege imposed by the Israeli military on the area.

The tragedies keep on unfolding across the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Thursday marked the 13th day of the military siege, where people don’t have proper access to any of the necessities to keep them alive.

And this is not the first attack on evacuation centers. A tremendous number of attacks have been recorded on UN-run shelters alongside shelters run by Gaza’s Ministry of Education.

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The number of UN-run facilities that have been targeted since the Israeli campaign of death and destruction began back in October 2023 has risen to more than 190 – hit or damaged without any sort of warning.

These areas are housing thousands of Palestinian families who were displaced from their houses destroyed by the Israeli military during military incursions into the northern part of Gaza and also the central and southern parts of the strip.

Many of the homes have been flattened completely with people inside them, in addition to Red Cross and civil defense departments.

Meanwhile, humanitarian groups have accused Israel of deliberately starving and forcibly displacing Palestinians in northern Gaza.

The Israeli military has deliberately banned the entry of humanitarian aid – much-needed life-saving resources and necessities for the trapped population in the northern part of the Strip.

The UN earlier said no trucks of food, water, or medicine have entered the north since September 30.

Even before this current ground incursion of the northern cities, the Israeli military stopped the entry of humanitarian aid, including fuel to hospitals, medical necessities and food supplies.

Israeli media have revealed that a plan is underway to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and kill any Palestinian who remains there.

Three Israeli reserve soldiers deployed to Gaza told Haaretz this week that they believe the “Generals’ Plan,” also known as the Eiland Plan, is being implemented.

Major international aid organizations have called on leaders and the international community to stop Israel’s forced displacement in northern Gaza.

Israeli soldiers reveal: Ethnic-cleansing plan already underway in north Gaza

Three Israeli reserve soldiers serving in Gaza told Haaretz this week that they believe the “Generals’ Plan” is being implemented.

The Israeli aggression which began in October last year, has so far killed more than 42,400 people and injured over 99,000 others. Lack of food, medicine and other necessities are also taking their toll on the Gaza population.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

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