Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces killed 25, including 12 in shelter

GAZAS civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 25 people yesterday, including 12 in a strike ona school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month.

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Israel has recently expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip, where the war since October 2023 has created dire humanitarian conditions and displaced nearly all of the territory’s population of more than two million.

Many have sought shelter in school buildings, but these have repeatedly come under Israeli attacks that the military often says target Hamas militants hiding among civilians.

In Gaza City yesterday, civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir said there were “12 martyrs, the majority of them children and women, and a large number of injuries in an Israeli air strike on the Mustafa Hafez School, which shelters displaced persons, in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood”.

Footage showed young children wandering through the charred, bombed out building, as piles of burnt debris smouldered.