At the very least 30 individuals have been killed and plenty of others injured in Israeli strikes on two United Nations-run faculties within the west of Gaza Metropolis.
The most recent loss of life toll was reported to Al Jazeera by Dr Marwan al-Hams, the director of hospitals within the Gaza Ministry of Well being.
In keeping with the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, 80 % of these killed and injured within the strikes on Sunday on the Hassan Salama and al-Nasr faculties had been kids.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud mentioned that the colleges, which have been used as shelters by displaced Palestinians, have been severely broken.
“This is similar precise state of affairs that we’ve seen prior to now few days. What we all know for a reality proper now could be that there’s [a] focus of assaults on evacuation centres. What’s actually regarding about that’s … that the Israeli army shouldn’t be giving any prior warning to individuals inside these evacuation centres,” Mahmoud mentioned.
The correspondent famous that many of the buildings used as shelters for the displaced in Gaza are faculties, as they’re the one giant areas obtainable now to accommodate a major variety of individuals.
“That is taking place in an unpredictable means, inflicting extreme casualties and rising the trauma of a inhabitants already displaced in some circumstances as much as 5, six or seven instances throughout the northern a part of the Gaza Strip,” Mahmoud mentioned.
Sunday’s assaults adopted the bombing of a school on Saturday by the Israeli military. Following Sunday’s assaults, at the least 15 individuals had been killed in Israeli air raids on the Hamama faculty within the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza Metropolis, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians.
Following the strikes on Sunday, Nebal Farsakh from the Palestine Crimson Crescent Society (PRCS) informed Al Jazeera that the assaults had been “once more one other proof that there isn’t a protected place in Gaza”.
“These two faculties are housing displaced civilians who’ve been compelled to depart a number of instances, and now even they’ve been compelled to flee one other time after this assault,” she mentioned.
“Israel has been systematically concentrating on civilians,” Farsakh mentioned.
The Israeli army claimed – with out offering proof – that the “faculties had been utilized by Hamas’s Al Furqan Battalion as a hiding place for its terrorist operatives and as command centres used to plan and execute assaults”.
Reporting from Amman, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut mentioned that these claims from the Israeli military have been seen “time and time once more”.
“The army says and continues to assert that Hamas is utilizing these locations, however we have now by no means seen any proof,” she mentioned.
“The [Israeli] army claims they take precautionary measures to verify minimal harm will likely be prompted to civilians by means of their strikes ….however you see time and time once more Palestinian civilians injured or choosing up our bodies from rubble, so there isn’t a warning,” Salhut added.
‘No place left within the enclave’
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli army additionally issued a brand new order for Palestinians to depart the southern and southeastern components of Khan Younis in Gaza, as the military widens its offensive, based on Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary in Deir el-Balah.
She mentioned the announcement impacts the neighbourhoods of Jurat al-Lot, al-Manara, Maan, Kizan, Kizan Abu Rashuan, al-Najjar, as-Salam, and al-Hashash.
The residents of those areas had been warned that “any presence of civilians in these areas is harmful and of excessive danger”, she mentioned.
Earlier this month, the United Nations mentioned greater than 86 % of Gaza has already been impacted by Israel’s so-called evacuation orders, with most individuals requested to stay in small “protected zones” which have additionally repeatedly come beneath Israeli assaults.
At the very least 39,583 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its Gaza offensive in October, based on Gaza’s Well being Ministry, after a Hamas-led assault on southern Israel killed at the least 1,139 individuals on October 7. Israeli forces killed 33 individuals and injured 118 others prior to now 24 hours alone, the ministry mentioned on Sunday.
As much as 91,398 others have been injured throughout 10 months of devastating struggle.