Bloody Night in Gaza: Dozens Killed, Hundreds Wounded in Strikes on Tents, Schools
One of the deadliest attacks took place in Mawasi Khan Younis, where at least 13 people were killed, including Sheikh Bilal Abu Assi, his wife, and their children, after an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced families near the Al-Akkad Mosque.
In the Al-Majaida neighborhood, also in western Khan Younis, another strike on tents killed at least 10 civilians, leaving dozens more wounded, some critically. Throughout the city and its outskirts, a series of intense air raids resulted in 25 fatalities in just a few hours.
In Gaza City, an Israeli warplane bombed Mustafa Hafiz School in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, which was housing hundreds of displaced people. At least 11 Palestinians were killed in the attack, with many more wounded. Charred bodies were recovered from the rubble, underscoring the ferocity of the strike.
Other heavily bombarded areas included the neighborhoods of Shuja'iyya, Zaytoun, and Tuffah, where entire apartment buildings were leveled by Israeli forces.
A school sheltering displaced civilians, Fahd Al-Sabah School, in the Tuffah neighborhood was also struck, while a drone dropped a bomb near Yaffa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, further endangering already overwhelmed medical services.
In a now-routine horror, six civilians were killed and over 100 others injured while waiting for humanitarian aid east of Al-Nabulsi roundabout in western Gaza City. Another five people were killed in a similar attack targeting aid seekers near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.
Additional casualties were reported after a tent in Al-Istable Street in western Khan Younis was bombed, leaving both dead and injured in its wake.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), approximately 85% of Gaza's territory is either under evacuation orders or designated as closed military zones, placing unbearable pressure on essential services.
The main water distribution center in Khan Younis has become inaccessible, threatening the collapse of the entire city's water infrastructure.
Palestinian factions condemned the ongoing massacres, particularly the bombing of the Mustafa Hafiz School and the targeting of starved civilians waiting for food aid.
The groups held the United States, and President Joe Biden in particular, fully responsible for the crimes, accusing international institutions of complicity through their silence and inaction.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with U.S. support, has waged a war of genocide in Gaza, involving mass killings, starvation, forced displacement, and the systematic destruction of infrastructure, in defiance of International Court of Justice rulings and global appeals to halt the assault.
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