Israel Attacks School Sheltering Displaced Families in Gaza City, Killing 12
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 12 Palestinian civilians were killed on Friday morning in an Israeli attack that targeted a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, without prior warning.
Emergency services in Gaza said the death toll from the attack on Amr bin Al-Ass School reached 12.
Five people, including three children, were also killed in an Israeli shelling of a tent on Jalaa Street, west of Gaza City, emergency sources added.
Medical sources said at least 11 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn.
Since the start of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli military has repeatedly targeted schools-turned-shelters across Gaza. These attacks have included shelling, direct shootings, and the killing of forcibly displaced people and their families or making them leave the schools under fire and/or with orders to flee.
The Israeli military always claims, without providing evidence, that the deadly attacks carried out are “precise” that targeted “terrorists who were operating in command and control centres” in the buildings.
A new report released lately by Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed that bomb remnants found after Israeli airstrikes hit two different schools in Gaza were from US-made munitions.
HRW’s report stressed that there is an “absence” of safe places left for Gaza’s displaced people after hundreds of Israeli strikes on schools sheltering displaced Palestinians, “including unlawfully indiscriminate attacks using US munitions”.
“Recent Israeli strikes on schools-turned-shelters are part of Israeli forces’ current military offensive that is demolishing much of Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, displacing again hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and worsening the already dire humanitarian situation,” the report said.
