Al-Shifa Hospital Director Confirms Deaths Occurred After Al-Buraq School Was Targeted.
At least 25 people were killed in Israeli attacks on a school in Gaza City, said the director of Al-Shifa hospital where the injured were taken.
“We received 25 martyrs from Al-Buraq school after missile and artillery strikes targeted the school this morning,” director Mohammad Abu Salmiya of Gaza’s largest hospital complex told Al Jazeera on Friday .
While the Reuters news agency reported that the director said at least 20 Palestinians had been killed, the AFP news agency put the number at around 50 people.
Video footage shared on social media showed dozens of bodies scattered around the school in the Al-Nasr neighborhood the day after the attack. People whose homes had been destroyed took refuge in the school.
The Israeli army has intensified its bombardments on the Gaza Strip, repeatedly targeting schools, mosques and hospitals.
Last week, an Israeli aerial missile struck the Al-Fakhoora school run by the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 15 people and injuring 54, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Thousands of people displaced by Israel’s continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip have found shelter at the Al-Fakhoora school. This was the third major attack on the Jabalia camp.
The attack came hours after a deadly strike on the Osama bin Zaid school, housing displaced families in the Al-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City, killing at least 20 people, according to local media.
At least 11,078 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the death toll stands at more than 1,400.
Israeli strikes have damaged more than 50 percent of homes in Gaza, officials say. The United Nations humanitarian office said in a statement that if there is “a hell on Earth, it is northern Gaza.”