The assault in Gaza Metropolis’s Daraj neighborhood got here throughout daybreak prayers on the faculty, and the deaths had been principally girls and youngsters. Movies and pictures shared by worldwide and native media present our bodies scattered on the ground, households mourning and younger males and youngsters looking out via the rubble.
That is the fifth assault by the IDF on colleges in Gaza for the reason that starting of August.
“Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood on the time, one hospital on the time, one faculty on the time,” the U.N.’s particular rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, stated in a put up on X.
Egypt’s international ministry additionally condemned the strike in a press release cited by the Center East information company, saying Israel has no “political will” to finish the warfare. Egypt, together with Qatar and the U.S., helps to mediate cease-fire talks which can be deliberate to renew on Aug. 15.
In the meantime, seven civilians had been killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, within the south of the Gaza Strip, based on the Palestinian media. Displaced Palestinians have been fleeing the devastated metropolis after an Israeli evacuation order on Friday.