GAZA: Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israeli air strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians overnight, including women and children, while the Israeli military said it had eliminated dozens of militants in the territory's north. An air strike hit tents housing displaced Palestinians in the southern area of Khan Yunis, killing at least nine people, including children and women, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said. The Palestinian Red Crescent also confirmed the toll, saying 11 others were wounded in the strike and were taken to Nasser Hospital.
A second air strike killed five people, including children, and injured about 22 when "Israeli warplanes hit Fahad Al-Sabah school", which had been turned into a shelter for "thousands of displaced people" in the Al Tuffah district of Gaza City, Bassal said. The dead and injured were taken to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, he added. In recent months, the military has struck several schools-turned-shelters where Israel has said Palestinian militants are operating.
UN said on Friday that "at least 64 attacks against schools – almost two every day – were registered in the Gaza Strip last month". It said Gaza schools "largely serve as shelters for displaced children and families", adding that since the start of the war "more than 95 per cent of schools in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed". — AFP
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