Israel strikes UN school with US bombs, kills 68 Palestinians in 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes have killed 68 Palestinians and injured 235 others in Gaza.

Forty displaced Palestinians, including 14 children and nine women, are among the dead. 

They were sheltering at the United Nations-run al-Sardi school, where 70 others were injured. 

The U.N. refugee agency UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says the attack on the school, which was housing 6,000 displaced individuals, occurred without warning. CNN and Washington Post quoted weapon experts saying Israel used US munitions in a deadly strike on a UN school. 

The Israeli military used at least two small-diameter bombs supplied by the United States in a deadly strike on Thursday on a U.N.-run school in central Gaza.

Israel claimed it targeted a compound allegedly used by Hamas fighters, but Hamas disputes this claim.

Israeli artillery also struck a family home in the town of al-Zuwaida in Gaza, killing a child.

Further north, strikes in the Shati refugee camp resulted in more casualties.

The Israeli military announced the death of one of its officers near southern Rafah district.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization reported that since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, as many as 727 health workers have been killed and 933 injured.

Israel has killed at least 36,654 people and wounded 83,309 since Oct. 7.

 It stands accused of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice, which in its latest ruling has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah.