Territory’s civil defence chief says more than 40 killed with toll increasing due to lack of medical care
have described finding children’s bodies that had been torn apart by the blast, as Israeli attacks on the area continued for a second night.
The attack was part of a campaign in parts of central Gaza which Israeli ground forces had targeted earlier in the war before moving on. They have been drawn back by cells of fighters using insurgent warfare tactics.At least 15 people were killed in airstrikes in the area on Thursday, Reuters reported, and in southern Rafah Israeli troops killed at least two others as they pushed west.
The strike on the school was so loud Jouda’s children panicked and rushed into their parents’ room; and then the screaming of the injured began. The next morning Jouda went to the school, where the UN said 6,000 people were sheltering. “I got the news of the death of my little brother, who was 10 years old, and they had found him lying at the door of the classroom without his feet or hands. My sister was injured, I was hit by shrapnel in my feet and hands.”Hisham Shalabi lives opposite the school, and when he realised it had been targeted raced to help. He carried out the body of a man who had been killed, and the fragmented remains of a child, he said.
Mounir Sorour, also sheltering inside the school, was woken by an explosion. “Nearby someone was screaming ‘oh my God’, then he died,” he said. “Another man next to me was bleeding badly from a leg injury.”
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