ANOTHER Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering has killed at least 17 people, Palestinian medical officials said.
The latest massacre of mainly women and children took place today in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and left another 42 people wounded, according to the Awda Hospital, which received the casualties.
Among the dead were seven children as young as 11 months, as well as three women.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Israel has carried out several strikes on schools-turned-shelters in recent months, saying it precisely targets Hamas militants hiding out among civilians. As in the latest attack, the strikes often kill women and children.
The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced today that the White House would provide $135 million (£103m) in aid to the Palestinians, saying it is critical that aid enters Gaza.
This comes as the US continues to provide the arms used by the Israelis to attack the Palestinians.
The latest war began when Hamas-led militants staged its surprise attack on October 7 2023 during which some 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage.
Israel’s retaliation has killed well over 42,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, although the death toll is likely to be far higher with many thousands thought to be trapped under the rubble of bombed out buildings in Gaza.
The war has displaced around 90 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into tent camps after entire neighbourhoods were demolished.
The Israelis have also continued to attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the Israeli military had killed 36 children in air strikes and 129 with live ammunition, “most in the head or upper body.”
Israeli soldiers shot 11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Hawash in the chest on Tuesday for throwing stones at an armoured vehicle in Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
In social media posts, the boy was seen throwing a stone at an armoured Israeli vehicle before he was shot dead.
The UN agency said the young boy posed “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces.
His death came after Israeli forces shot and killed a teenager in the head in Hebron on Sunday, leaving him in a critical condition.
Three days earlier, an 11-year-old was also shot in the head by the Israelis and critically injured at the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron.
