More than 60 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a school and an orphanage housing displaced persons in Gaza City, and following an incursion by the occupation army into the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The official Voice of Palestine radio reported – today, Wednesday – that more than 30 Palestinians were martyred and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a school and an orphanage housing displaced persons in Gaza.
Local sources said that Israeli aircraft bombed the “Muscat” School, which shelters displaced people in the Zarqa area in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, and the “Al-Amal Institute for Orphans,” which shelters displaced people west of Gaza City.
For its part, the Israeli army said that it bombed two schools that were being used as headquarters for the Hamas movement, according to Haaretz newspaper.
In the same context, 38 Palestinians were martyred – at dawn on Wednesday – as the Israeli army targeted homes in areas it entered east of the city of Khan Yunis before it withdrew from it.
Medical sources reported to Tel Aviv Tribune that 38 Palestinians were killed as a result of the Israeli army’s bombing of a number of homes, at dawn on Wednesday, in the areas of Ma’an, Al-Manara and Al-Salam neighborhoods, east of the city of Khan Yunis.
The Anadolu correspondent, quoting eyewitnesses, stated that the Israeli army suddenly penetrated into those areas, amid bombing and direct targeting of Palestinian homes and anyone moving there.
He added that the army bombed dozens of homes in those areas belonging to the Al-Zard, Islih, Al-Shaer, and other families, and that ambulance and civil defense crews were unable to reach those areas until after the Israeli army withdrew from them to evacuate the victims and recover the martyrs.
The reporter explained that medical teams and civil defense were able to evacuate the injured journalist, Ahmed Al-Zard, and his family, after Israeli warplanes bombed their house east of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli army prevented medical and civil defense teams from reaching that area to rescue them.
In the late hours of yesterday, Tuesday, a large exodus of Palestinians was observed in the areas of Qaizan al-Najjar and al-Manara, due to the sudden incursion and Israeli bombing, despite complete darkness, according to eyewitnesses.
The Israeli bombing continues on various areas of the Gaza Strip, resulting in martyrs and wounded.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip that has resulted in more than 138,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing persons, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
