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Yesterday, the Israeli army killed dozens of Palestinians in raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip, including at least 14 Palestinians who were killed in an air raid that targeted, for the fifth time, a school housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Strip.
Medical sources at the camp’s Al-Awda Hospital said: “Most of the victims arrived in torn limbs, making it difficult to identify them,” noting that only five of those whose bodies arrived were identified. The sources added that “it appears from the limbs that most of the dead were children,” noting that it is difficult for medical crews to retrieve all the victims from under the rubble.
Eyewitnesses said that the warplanes suddenly targeted Al-Jagouni School in Al-Nuseirat camp (which had been targeted before) with several missiles, which led to the killing and wounding of a number of displaced people inside the school.
The Israeli military claimed, as on many previous occasions, that it had targeted a “command and control complex.”
Earlier yesterday, the Israeli army killed at least 30 Palestinians during attacks on different areas in the Strip, according to medical sources.
The European Hospital in Khan Younis, which received a number of victims, reported that an airstrike at dawn yesterday killed 11 people, including six siblings aged between 21 months and 21 years, while three women, a child and a man were killed in another airstrike near the city of Khan Younis.
An Israeli airstrike at dawn on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed nine people, including six women and children. The Civil Defense said the house was owned by Dr. Akram al-Najjar, a professor at Al-Quds Open University, and that he escaped death.
The Israeli army announced that two soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in a helicopter crash the night before last in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. It said in a statement that “initial investigations indicate that the accident was not caused by enemy fire.” The army said it was investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred as the helicopter was landing in Rafah.
The helicopter was on a mission to evacuate wounded soldiers from Rafah for treatment in Israeli hospitals, a recurring scene since the start of the war. The army has acknowledged the deaths of 340 Israeli soldiers since the ground operation in Gaza began in late October.
