GAZA: At least 16 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in central Gaza on Saturday (Jul 6), the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack Israel said had targeted militants.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nusairat in central Gaza Strip, Jul 6, 2024. GAZA: At least 16 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in central Gaza on Saturday , the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack Israel said had targeted militants.
At the scene, Ayman al-Atouneh said he saw children among the dead."We came here running to see the targeted area, we saw bodies of children, in pieces, this is a playground, there was a trampoline here, there were swing-sets and vendors," he said. In its daily update of people killed in the nearly nine-month-old war, the Gaza health ministry said Israeli military strikes across the enclave killed at least 29 Palestinians in the past 24 hours and wounded 100 others.
A statement issued by the Hamas-run interior ministry said the four included Fares Abdel-Al, the head of the police force in western Rafah neighbourhood of Tel Al-Sultan.
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