Zionist occupation forces strike school-turned-shelter, launch multiple attacks across Gaza Strip
GAZA – The Zionist occupation forces bombed the UNRWA-run Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School in southern Khan Younis, resulting in at least 20 martyrs, including children, according to WAFA news agency.
The attack followed an assault on a school in northern Beit Hanoon that claimed the lives of 43 people, as well as another strike on a Civil Defence Post, which resulted in six martyrs, including a journalist and five rescue workers.
“It’s absolutely appalling that children continue to be killed every day in Gaza,” UNICEF communications specialist Rosalia Bollen said.
“At least 14,500 children have been reported killed. There are tens of thousands more that are injured, and at least a quarter of those are thought to require major rehabilitation, they risk lifelong disability.”
In the wake of the ongoing Zionist genocidal war on Gaza, at least 44,976 Palestinians were martyred since October 7, 2023, with women and children accounting for 70 percent. Additionally, around 106,759 people have been wounded, and 1.9 million are displaced.
According to the UN statistics, over 70 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure is destroyed, from health services to water. Moreover, 17 out of 36 hospitals are partially functional, with 84 percent of healthcare facilities destroyed amid a dire shortage of supplies and medicine.
Experts from the UN-partnered Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee have already issued an alert over imminent famine in the northern Gaza Strip.
“It’s been 14 months. People here really are surviving on bread, lentils, food in tin cans. We’re not seeing fruit and vegetables around…In the past four months alone, nearly 19,000 children were hospitalized due to acute malnourishment,” said Louise Wateridge, Senior Emergencies Officer with the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, speaking to reporters in Geneva from central Gaza.
Zionist attacks on an aid convoy on Thursday claimed the lives of several guards, leaving only one truck out of 70 able to deliver food, hygiene supplies, and tents to Gaza’s population.
