Numerous people are said to have been killed when a rocket hit a school in the northern Gaza Strip. The origin of the bullet is still unclear. People also died in the evacuation zone in the south after air strikes.
Numerous people are said to have died, including children, when a bullet hit a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas, reported many deaths and injuries at the school in the refugee district of Jabalia. He accused the Israeli army of attacking the building. They said they were checking the reports.
According to eyewitnesses, an overcrowded UN Palestinian Relief Agency (UNRWA) shelter was hit. The impact caused massive destruction in the Fakhura school in Jabalia. Images from Jabalia showed several dead people in shrouds. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he had received horrific images and videos of people killed and injured. “These attacks must not become commonplace, they must stop,” wrote Lazzarini. He called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. According to Lazzarini, thousands of internally displaced people had sought refuge in the building.
Gray areas: Built-up areas in the Gaza Strip. Hatching: Israeli army
Apparently another attack on the school
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is controlled by the terrorist militia Hamas, also said that there had also been a second attack on a school in the northern city of Beit Lahia. There were deaths and injuries. Lazzarini also reports on the “horrific recordings” that he received from there. The army announced that the reports would also be examined here. For more than a month, Israel’s army has repeatedly called on residents of the northern Gaza Strip to flee to the south of the coastal strip for their own safety.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Israeli attack or Palestinian Rocket?
The Israeli news site ynet wrote that it was unclear whether it was an Israeli attack or a misdirected rocket from Palestinian terrorists. According to the Israeli military, several rockets were fired again from the Gaza Strip on Saturday at Israeli border towns and the coastal city of Ashkelon. According to the Israeli army, around a fifth of the rockets fired land in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt condemned the alleged shelling as a “terrible bombing by Israeli occupation forces.” The State Department said it viewed the incident as another war crime that needed to be investigated and its perpetrators held accountable. Jordan also strongly condemned Israel’s “heinous and ongoing war crimes” in a statement from the Foreign Ministry. This also includes the recent attack on the UN school. It is a “blatant violation of international law.”
More than 80 percent of the residents of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, are refugees or descendants of refugees who left their homes when the State of Israel was founded in 1948.
Missile impacts also in the south
At least 32 people are said to have been killed in Israeli air strikes on apartment blocks in the southern Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run health service said 26 people were killed and 23 injured in an airstrike on a multi-story building on the outskirts of the city of Khan Yunis during the night. A few kilometers away, six Palestinians died after an air strike on a house.
At the start of the war, the Israeli military urged civilians to flee the northern Gaza Strip, the target of its ground offensive. At the same time, the evacuation zone in the south, where Khan Yunis is located, is repeatedly attacked.
The Israeli army again called on residents of several neighborhoods in Gaza City to evacuate on Saturday. For their own safety, residents should flee the neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip to the south by 4 p.m. local time, an army spokesman wrote in Arabic on Civilians who were prevented from fleeing by the terrorist organization Hamas could contact the Israeli army by telephone or via the Telegram platform, it said.
The army also announced a four-hour “tactical” break in fighting in the Shabura refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons. The border crossing to Egypt is also in the area. According to an estimate by the Palestinian Statistics Authority in the West Bank, hundreds of thousands of people are still in the northern Gaza Strip.
Al-Shifa Hospital largely evacuated
The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, which was taken over by Israeli soldiers, has now been largely evacuated, according to Palestinian information. In the largest clinic in the Gaza Strip there are only 32 premature babies and 126 injured people who cannot get to safety, Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila told journalists in Ramallah in the West Bank. The minister demanded that the patients “left behind” must now be transferred to other clinics, either to Egypt or the West Bank. After the evacuation, only five doctors remained in the hospital.
The exact circumstances of the extensive evacuation are still unclear: According to Palestinian information, patients, those seeking protection and employees were forced to leave the clinic within an hour on Saturday morning. Israel’s army, however, said it had never ordered the evacuation of patients or medical staff. The military explained that the extension of the evacuation was at the request of the clinic director.
The first tank trucks reach the Gaza Strip
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains critical. A lack of fuel, especially for trucks and electricity generation, is hindering basic supplies for the civilian population. A day after Israel agreed to allow a limited amount of fuel to be imported into the Gaza Strip every day for humanitarian purposes, the first tank trucks filled with diesel reached the area, according to aid workers.
The Secretary General of the Egyptian Red Crescent (ECR), Raed Abdel Nasser, told the dpa news agency that three trucks loaded with around 129,000 liters of diesel had arrived. The UNRWA aid agency said that much more was needed for humanitarian operations than the quantity that had arrived. According to UNRWA, the Israelis only allowed around 120,000 liters to be imported from Egypt into the sealed-off coastal area – slightly less than stated by the Red Crescent.
UNRWA said the current delivery “is far too little to meet the needs of desalination plants, sewage treatment plants, hospitals, water pumps in shelters, relief trucks, ambulances, bakeries and the communications network without interruption.” According to UN emergency aid coordinator Martin Griffiths, around 200,000 liters are needed every day to provide minimal humanitarian supplies.