Israeli missiles slam into a UN school sheltering hundreds of displaced Gaza people with at least 17 killed and 80 wounded, the media office says, the latest attack inflicting mass civilian casualties in 24 hours.
At least 16 Palestinians are killed in northern Gaza City and another six in southern Rafah as Israeli forces continue to bomb civilians – a day after a “massacre” in al-Mawasi.
Israel has claimed that Rafi Salama, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Bridage, was killed in the attack on al-Mawasi, which killed at least 90 people. Hamas yesterday denied that its leaders were present there, calling Israeli claims “fake news”.
Funerals are being held “every 15 minutes” after Israel’s air force attacked the “humanitarian” zone in southern Gaza, killing at least 90 people and wounding 300 others.
At least 38,443 people have been killed and 88,481 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza, since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, and dozens of people are still held captive in Gaza.
Shocking and brutal massacre’: World reacts to Israel’s al-Mawasi attacks:
The United Nations and countries across the Middle East have denounced Israel after its military attacked a designated humanitarian safe zone in Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding 300 others.
Israel said the target of Saturday’s attack in al-Mawasi was Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was not certain if the fighter had been killed. Hamas rejected the premise of the assault as “false”, saying “defenseless civilians” were killed in the attack.
The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Palestinian authority, UN, Saudi Arabia, OIC, UAE, Oman, Colombia, Malaysia, United States and Pakistan condemned the attack on “displaced persons’ tents in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, in an area that Israel had previously classified as safe, which resulted in the death and injury of dozens of Palestinians”.
Abu Oreiban School:
An attack on the Abu Oreiban School in Nuseirat refugee camp has killed at least 17 people and wounded 80.
Israeli bombardment continued across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including deadly attacks on Gaza City and Maghazi.
Condemnation has continued to pour in of Israel’s “massacre” that killed at least 90 people in the al-Mawasi refugee camp on Saturday and injured hundreds.
Cities in the occupied West Bank held a general strike to denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza, including the al-Mawasi attack.
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political office, denies reports the group has pulled out of recently renewed ceasefire talks, in a statement.
Source: Al Jazeera and other media outlets
