GAZA, May 6, 2025 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured on Tuesday evening as Israeli bombing targeted a school-turned-shelter to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that an Israeli airstrike targeted Abu Hamisa school, sheltering displaced civilians to the east of the refugee camp, killing at least 18 civilians and injuring dozens of others.
He added that fatalities and casualties were rushed to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah as well as to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
He continued that among the fatalities were at least seven children, pointing out that the bodies of slain Palestinians were hurled into the air above the school buildings due to the intensity of bombardment.
Meanwhile, medical sources said that rescue and emergency teams were attempting to pull the bodies of the fatalities and casualties trapped under the rubble.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached at least 2,507 with 6,711 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
Since the dawn hours of today, Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes have killed 37 civilians across the Strip. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 48 slain Palestinians and 142 casualties were admitted to hospitals in the Strip.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 52,615 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 118,752 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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