JAKARTA - Israel's airstrikes on schools housing abandoned families in the Gaza Strip, Palestine killed 10 people on Wednesday, with Israel saying it was targeting militants operating from within the compound.
Doctors said airstrikes against Yaffa School in the Tuffah area, Gaza City burned tents and classrooms.
The Israeli military said Hamas and its ally group Jihad Islam were operating within the school, so they took precautions to reduce the danger to civilians before attacking there.
Some of the furniture was still on fire hours after the attack, as people were looking for their belongings in blackened classrooms and school grounds.
"We were sleeping and suddenly something exploded, we started looking for and finding the entire school on fire, tents here and there on fire, everything was on fire," said witness Um Mohammed al-Hwaiti, as reported by Reuters on April 24.
"People shouted and people took people, (people) who were charred, the children who were charred, and walked around saying: 'O God, O God, we have no one but You.' What can we say? Oh God, only You," he said.
Since the January ceasefire ended on March 18, Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,600 Palestinians, many of whom are civilians, according to Gaza health authorities, and hundreds of thousands of people have fled as Israel seized what it calls a buffer zone for Gaza's territory.
Israel has also imposed a blockade on all goods entering Gaza, including fuel and electricity, since early March.
Meanwhile, medics said at least 36 people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, Gaza's Ministry of Health said Israeli missiles hit the building above the Durra Children's Hospital in Gaza City, damaging intensive care units and destroying the solar panel system that supplies electricity to the facility. No one died.
Separately, medical sources in Gaza on Wednesday confirmed the death toll from Palestinians in the enclave had reached 51,305 people and 117,096 others injured since the latest conflict broke out in 2023, with the majority of victims being children and women, as reported by WAFA.
According to the same source, the death toll since Israel restarted genocide on March 18, after a two-month ceasefire, also rose to 1,783 people, in addition to 4,683 others injured.
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