Israeli strikes about Gaza Kill 24, say doctors and civil servants

At least 24 Palestinians were killed at night in two separate Israeli air strikes, including a strike on a shelter that shelters displaced families in Central Gaza, according to doctors and civil servants of the civil defense.

The strike focused on the Fahmi al-Jargawi school in Gaza City, who had housed hundreds of displaced persons who fled the northern city of Beit Lahia, currently under intense Israeli military attack.

A spokesperson for the Hamas civil defense agency of Gaza said that 20 bodies, including children, were recovered from the school – many of them were seriously burned – after fires had flooded two classrooms in living spaces.

The Israeli army is contacted for comment.

“Flames were everywhere. I saw charred bodies lying on the floor,” said Rami Rafiq, a resident who lived opposite the school, in a phone call with BBC. “My son fainted when he saw the horrible scene.”

Video images that are shared online showed large fires that consumed parts of the school, with graphic images of seriously burned victims, including children, and survivors who were critical injury.

Local reports said among the dead was Mohammad al-Kasih, the head of research for the Hamas police in northern Gaza, together with his wife and children.

Shortly before the school strike, another Israeli air strike hit a house in Central Gaza City, in which four people were killed more, said Hamas-Runned Health Minister.

The twin attacks are part of a broader Israeli offensive that has escalated in the northern part of the enclave last week.

On Friday, an Israeli strike killed nine of her 10 children in the house of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza. Dr.’s 11-year-old son Alaa al-Najjar was injured, together with her husband, Hamdi Al-Najjar, who is in a critical condition.

The nine children – Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gerst, Eva, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra – were between a few months old and 12 years old. The Israeli army has said that the incident is being revised.

In the meantime, the Red Cross said that two of his employees were killed on Saturday in a strike in their house in Khan Younis.

The killing of Ibrahim Eid, a weapon pollution, and Ahmad Abu Hilal, a guard in the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah “points to the unbearable civil death toll in Gaza,” said the ICRC and repeated his call for a ceasefire.

On Sunday, the head of one Controversial US and Israelically approved organization That tried to use private companies to help Gaza who resigned.

In a statement from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, executive director Jake Wood said that it had become clear that plans to set up distribution hubs would not meet the “humanitarian principles” of independence and neutrality.

On 2 March, Israel imposed a total blockade to Gaza, which lasted 11 weeks before it allowed limited help to enter the territory in the light of warnings for famine and the increasing international indignation.

The Israeli military body Cogat said on Saturday morning that 388 trucks that have been wearing help since Monday entered Gaza. The UN says much more help – between 500 and 600 trucks per day – is needed.

In the meantime, 20 countries and organizations met in Madrid on Sunday to discuss that the war in Gaza ends the war. The Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares called for a arms embargo on Israel if it did not stop his attacks.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the cross -border attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were held hostage.

At least 53,939 people, including at least 16,500 children, have since been killed in Gaza, according to the Health Minister of the area.