Israeli forces attack Gaza shelter school, killing at least 15 Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, killing at least 15 Palestinians, sources told Al Jazeera. Dozens of people, including two journalists, were killed overnight, amid a wave of attacks in the besieged Palestinian territory. Were killed.

Several other people were also injured in an Israeli attack on the Khalil Oweida school in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, on Sunday, witnesses told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, quoted witnesses as saying that many of those injured during the attack on the school suffered “serious injuries”.

“They have nowhere to go because Israeli military forces are surrounding the area with tanks and armored vehicles and attacking the school with heavy artillery,” he said.

Those killed included a family of four, including two children, after the classroom in which they were sheltering was “directly hit” by artillery fire.

“Many of the injured are inside the school courtyard and other classrooms. They cannot get any treatment because no hospital is operational in Beit Hanoun,” he said, adding that the attack on the school came “without any prior warning.”

Palestinian news agency WAFA has also confirmed the death of 15 people.

WAFA reported that those who remained in the besieged school, many of them women and children, were being forced to leave the area and head towards a military checkpoint set up on Salah al-Din Street. Several people were reportedly detained.

The siege of the school is still going on.

Overall, at least 46 Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the besieged territory’s health ministry said, adding that five “massacres” were carried out by Israeli forces during the same period.

Of the total deaths, at least 14 were recorded in southern Gaza City, including in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where an Israeli strike hit a residential building in the Abu Iskandar area.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic also report that four of those deaths occurred in an Israeli strike on a house on al-Nafaq Street in the center of Gaza city.

Three other people were killed in a separate attack on a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

Palestinian news agency WAFA confirmed that an Israeli airstrike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in Beit Hanoun, killing several civilians and injuring several others.

WAFA said two other people were reported killed following a separate Israeli attack on the area around Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza.

Four Palestinians were also killed in Shujaiya, Khan Younis.

At least 135 other people were reported injured in the Israeli attacks on Sunday.

The Israeli strikes and bombings came just a day after Israeli forces killed several people in an attack on a school in Gaza City, and just two days after a massacre in the Nussirat refugee camp.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud confirmed on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jaber al-Krinawi was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in the Burij refugee camp in central Gaza late Saturday night.

Egypt-based Al-Ahram reported that al-Qirnawi was affiliated with the Sanad news agency, a separate entity from Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. Al-Qirnawi was the second journalist killed on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media had said that its journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza.

Al Mashhad news director George Eid confirmed the killing of Balousha, saying it was a targeted attack.

Balousha was the Palestinian journalist who broke the story on the decomposing bodies of premature babies born in ICUs who were left to die by Israeli forces in al-Nasr hospital last year.

The separate killings of al-Qirawi and Balousha bring the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 196. The Committee to Protect Journalists has compiled records of at least 137 Palestinian journalists killed.

On Tuesday, two separate reports from media freedom organizations said Israel carried out a “massacre” of journalists in Gaza.

The Israeli government denied the allegations.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 44,976 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.