GAZA, Jul 7 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 16 more Palestinians were killed, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing of a school, sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat area, in the central Gaza Strip, yesterday afternoon.
The Al-Jaouni school was bombed for the third time, since the onset of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Israeli military said, it was looking into the report about the incident, according to Israeli media.
In a statement yesterday, the Gaza government media office said, the attacked school sheltered about 7,000 displaced people, adding that, since the outbreak of the conflict, the Israeli army has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centres, inside the Nuseirat refugee camp.
UN statistics estimated earlier this week that, the number of people internally displaced within Gaza has risen to 1.9 million people, or about nine out of ten people in the Strip.
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 29 people and wounded 100 others, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement, yesterday. Among those killed were five local journalists, raising the death toll of journalists since Oct 7 to 158, according to the media office.
The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 38,098, with 87,705 injuries, since the Israeli attack broke out in early Oct, last year, according to the health authorities in Gaza.– NNN-WAFA
