GAZA – Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli attack on a school housing families in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Tuesday night. This is the fourth time the Israeli occupation forces (IDF) have bombed a school used as a shelter for Gaza residents.
Al Jazeera quoted local medical sources as saying that Israeli fighter jets targeted the entrance to the al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis. Several others were also injured.
The Gaza Government Media Office said at least 29 Palestinians were killed in the attack, most of them women and children. “The latest massacre occurred after the occupation forces attacked six other displacement camps in the central Gaza area, bringing the total death toll to at least 60 people in the past few hours,” the media office said in a statement. The attack also occurred as the health care sector in Gaza continued to collapse as Israeli forces forced some hospitals to suspend their services, it added.
Israeli forces expelled people in Rafah when the ground invasion began there, asking them to move to Khan Younis. And most of these people were evacuated to shelters, such as UN shelters and schools.
So especially towards the evening, Palestinians who were in shelters, in UN schools began to move, packing up all their belongings during the day because they did not move at night. It is very clear that the number of casualties will increase because this is the entrance – where everyone moves, children play.
No one knows for sure why Israeli forces are now targeting schools and UN shelters directly. They argue that whenever they target a school, it means there is a Hamas base and there are Hamas fighters there. In fact, most of those injured or killed are Palestinian children and women.
This is the fourth Israeli attack in the past four days targeting schools used as shelters. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike hit the al-Jawni school managed by the UN in Nuseirat, central Gaza, killing 16 people, according to the health ministry in the region. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, said there were 2,000 people sheltering there at the time.
The next day, an attack on the Holy Family school managed by a church in Gaza City killed four people, according to civil defense. The Latin Patriarchate, the owner of the school, said hundreds of people crowded the yard.
Another UNRWA-managed school in Nuseirat was also attacked on Monday, and the local hospital said some people had been brought in for treatment. According to UNRWA, more than 500 people have been killed in its schools and other shelters in Gaza since the war began on October 7.
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Source: Republika (https://news.republika.co.id/berita/sgdng8393/biadab-israel-kembali-bom-sekolah-tempat-mengungsi-di-gaza-puluhan-syahid)
