At least 16 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 16 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 50 injured in two attacks by the Israeli army on a UN-owned school in the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Khan Yunis, media reports said Saturday.

The army targeted a school belonging to the UN Relief and Public Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp in Gaza from the air and sea, according to the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA.

At least four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the attack.

Israeli warplanes separately targeted a house where a large number of displaced people were sheltering in Khan Yunis.

At least 12 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 50 others, most of them children and women, were injured.

There were also casualties in Israeli attacks on different points of the blockaded Gaza Strip from the air, land and sea.

Since Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, Israel has continued relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 22,722 Palestinians and injuring 58,166, said health authorities.

At least 9,280 children have been killed in the Israeli onslaught.

Israeli authorities claimed that the Hamas attacks killed around 1,140 Israelis.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine.