The Hamas government’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that 15 people had been killed in the Israeli bombing of a UN school hosting thousands of displaced people in a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, confirmed that “at least one strike” had “targeted the schoolyard where displaced families were living in tents, and another strike at inside the school where women were preparing bread.”
Children are among the dead, said its spokesperson Juliette Touma, in this school which welcomed 16,000 displaced people in mid-October.
“The massacre of the al-Fakhoura school perpetrated by the Israeli occupier this [samedi] morning left 15 martyrs and 70 injured,” ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidreh said earlier at a press conference.
The Hamas health ministry initially published a report of 12 dead and 54 injured.
Friday evening, a strike on a school transformed into a makeshift shelter for displaced people in the north of the Gaza Strip left 20 dead and dozens injured, according to the Hamas government.
On November 2, UNRWA announced that four of its schools housing war-displaced people had been hit by bombings and deplored 23 deaths.
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