An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday on a school in southern Gaza that had been converted into a temporary emergency shelter has resulted in the deaths of at least 25 Palestinians, according to media reports.
Israel’s extensive bombing in the north of the occupied territory has shut down most if not all of the medical facilities in Gaza City, causing thousands of patients and people sheltering there to seek safety elsewhere.
The nine-month war on Gaza has resulted in vast devastation, with many areas reduced to broad swaths of rubble, as evidenced by media footage.
A significant number of people were initially evacuated to other countries in search of safety and security. However, several hundred thousand Palestinians remain in the affected regions, particularly in the north, where the death toll is increasing, not only due to airstrikes and raids, but due to the lack of food and water, a lack of medical care due to insufficient medical supplies, power cuts, and hospitals having been bombed, as well as Israel’s strikes on the last remaining civilian refugee camps.
A reporter from the Associated Press (AP) present at the scene of the latest bombing, confirmed the strike and witnessed the transfer of the bodies to Khan Youness Hospital.
Hospital spokesman Weam Fares confirmed that at least seven women and children were among the dead, and the death toll is expected to rise, AP reported.
The death toll in Gaza is now at least 38,295 since Israel began its onslaught after October 7. More than 88,241 people have been injured, the vast majority of whom are women and children, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Ministry of health.