At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps, officials said.
Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people, including children, in northern, central and southern Gaza, Palestinian officials and media said, as the besieged territory endures its 44th day of bombardment.
At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, the Hamas-ruled enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday.
A woman and her child were also killed in strikes in the southern town of Khan Younis, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Israeli forces also shot dead two people, including a disabled man, during incursions into the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.
Issam al-Fayed, a 46-year-old disabled man, was killed at the entrance to the Jenin refugee camp, while Omar Laham, 20, was killed at the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, said Wafa.
“Our life is hell”
The killings follow devastating attacks on schools and refugee camps in northern Gaza.
At least 50 people were killed in an attack on the Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said, while dozens of casualties were reported in a attack on a second school in Tall az-Zaatar.
“The scenes were horrible. Corpses of women and children lay on the ground. Others were screaming for help,” Ahmed Radwan, an injured survivor of the Al Fakhura attack, told the Associated Press news agency.
“The corpses (are) scattered… pieces of flesh,” an anonymous witness told Tel Aviv Tribune. “No one can recognize his sons. Our life is hell.
Marwan Bishara, Tel Aviv Tribune’s senior political analyst, said the Al Fakhoura school could be described as “al-Shifa school” because it was hit repeatedly by Israeli forces, like the hospital al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest medical facility, which was destroyed. a major target of the Israeli military campaign.
“There is nothing discriminatory about the fact that a school that houses thousands of people was bombed from the air; it aims to create damage, loss of life, suffering and death,” Bishara said.
Patients fleeing al-Shifa
Meanwhile, al-Shifa Hospital remained at the center of humanitarian concerns as hundreds of people fled the facility on foot on orders from the Israeli military, according to its director.
Columns of sick and wounded – some of them amputees – were seen leaving with displaced people, doctors and nurses on Saturday, as loud explosions were heard around the complex.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, described “horrific images” from the scene, while Egypt called the attack a “war crime” and “a deliberate insult at the United Nations.
A World Health Organization assessment team said Sunday that 291 patients remained in hospital. They included 32 babies in extremely critical condition, trauma patients with severely infected wounds and others with spinal injuries and unable to move, the U.N. health agency said.
Since the Palestinian group Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, Israel has carried out a devastating air and ground attack on Gaza, killing at least 11,500 people, more than a third of them children, according to reports. officials in Gaza.
The 44-day war has displaced some 1.5 million Palestinians, destroyed much of the territory’s infrastructure and sparked a desperate humanitarian crisis, aid workers say.