13 Children among 41 People Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 41 people, including 13 children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as the Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave continues.
On Sunday, Israeli artillery targeted a school sheltering displaced Palestinians near the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in 22 fatalities and multiple injuries.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported that the school was housing over 5,000 people seeking refuge from ongoing Israeli genocidal war. Among the dead was an infant who succumbed to injuries shortly after being transported to Al Aqsa Hospital.
“The situation is very difficult at Al Mufti school, with a large number of martyrs and injuries,” paramedic Khaled Abu Zaher told CNN.
In a separate incident, five children were killed when the al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza was shelled. The attack left at least a dozen others injured. Further casualties were reported following airstrikes on the al-Bureij refugee camp.
The death toll from the Israeli war, which reignited last October, has surpassed 42,200, with more than 98,000 Gazans wounded.
Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, condemned the Israeli attack on Al Mufti school as a “heinous massacre,” attributing it to a "brutal war of extermination" by the Israeli military.
The resistance group accused Israel of “deliberately targeting civilians in residential neighborhoods and shelters.” It also claimed that US support and international silence were enabling Israel to continue its actions.
“We call on the international community and the United Nations to assume their legal and moral responsibilities towards these repeated crimes, and to take immediate action to stop the ongoing aggression, and to bring the leaders of this terrorist entity to account for their crimes and violations against our Palestinian people and the peoples of the region,” Hamas stated.