Not less than 15 Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza faculty sheltering displaced individuals, sources have instructed Al Jazeera, amid a wave of assaults throughout the besieged Palestinian territory killing dozens extra, together with two journalists in a single day.
Witnesses instructed Al Jazeera that a number of others have been additionally injured within the Israeli assault on Khalil Oweida College in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza on Sunday.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, quoted witnesses as saying a lot of these damage through the storming of the college sustained “extreme accidents”.
“They’ve nowhere to go as a result of the Israeli army forces are encircling the realm with tanks and armoured autos, and hammering the college with heavy artillery,” he mentioned.
Amongst these killed have been a household of 4, together with two kids, after the classroom the place they have been sheltering took a “direct hit” from artillery fireplace.
“Lots of the injured are within the courtyard of the college and inside the opposite school rooms. They’ll’t get any remedy as a result of not one of the hospitals in Beit Hanoon are operational,” he mentioned, noting that the storming of the college occurred “with out prior warning”.
The Palestinian information company WAFA additionally confirmed the 15 deaths.
WAFA reported that those that remained on the besieged faculty, a lot of them ladies and youngsters, have been being pressured to depart the realm and transfer in direction of a army checkpoint arrange at Salah al-Din Avenue. A number of of the boys have been reportedly detained.
The siege of the college remains to be beneath means.
In all, not less than 46 Palestinians have been killed throughout Gaza within the final 24 hours, the besieged territory’s Ministry of Well being mentioned, including that 5 “massacres” have been dedicated by Israeli forces throughout the identical interval.
Of whole loss of life toll, not less than 14 have been reported within the southern Gaza Metropolis, together with within the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, the place an Israeli raid hit a residential constructing within the Abu Iskandar space.
Our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic additionally reported that 4 of these deaths have been from an Israeli raid on a home in al-Nafaq Avenue within the centre of Gaza Metropolis.
Three different individuals have been killed in a separate strike on a home in Zeitoun neighbourhood south of Gaza Metropolis.
The Palestinian information company WAFA confirmed that an Israeli air raid hit a tent sheltering displaced individuals in Beit Hanoon, killing a number of civilians and wounding many others.
Two others have been reported killed following a separate Israeli assault on the realm surrounding Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, WAFA added.
4 Palestinians have been additionally killed in Shujayea, Khan Younis.
Not less than 135 different individuals have been reported injured within the Israeli assaults on Sunday.
The lethal Israeli raids and bombings come only a day after Israeli forces killed a number of individuals after hitting a school in Gaza City, and simply two days after a massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp.
In the meantime, Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud confirmed on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi was killed alongside along with his spouse and youngsters in an Israeli air assault that focused their house in Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, late on Saturday.
The Egypt-based Al-Ahram reported that al-Qrinawi was affiliated with Sanad Information Company, a definite entity from Al Jazeera’s Sanad Verification Unit. Al-Qrinawi was the second journalist killed on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media mentioned its journalist Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli assault in Gaza.
George Eid, director of reports at Al Mashhad, confirmed Balousha’s killing, saying it was a focused assault.
Balousha was the Palestinian journalist who broke the story on the decomposing our bodies of untimely infants within the ICU, who have been left to die by Israeli forces at al-Nasr Hospital final yr.
The separate killings of al-Qrinawi and Balousha increase the loss of life toll of Palestinian journalists to 196. The Committee to Defend Journalists has compiled information of not less than 137 Palestinian journalists killed.
On Tuesday, two separate reports from media freedom organisations mentioned Israel carried out a “bloodbath” of journalists in Gaza.
The Israeli authorities denied the accusations.
In line with Gaza’s Well being Ministry, not less than 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.
