An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school-turned-shelter kills 10 | Israel-Palestine Conflicts News

The strike took place at a school run by the UN in a refugee camp in Gaza City in Shati.

An Israeli strike on a school where Palestinians were sheltering in the Gaza City refugee camp in Shati killed 10 people and injured at least 20 others, Palestinian medics said.

Rescue operations were underway at the UN-run Abu Assi school in northern Gaza on Saturday, health officials said.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said that according to locals and witnesses, most of the people who took refuge in the school were expelled from other parts of Gaza.

“Let me remind you that there is only one working hospital in the city … and we know that the health situation in the hospitals in Gaza was terrible … so it is difficult to help the wounded,” he said.

Palestinian health officials said at least 30 people were killed in Israeli military strikes across the region on Saturday.

The northern Gaza Strip, in particular, has been under siege for more than 40 days.

“Israeli forces have surrounded and tightly barred Palestinians in Beit Lahiya, Jabalia and Beit Hanoon, where Palestinians cannot leave their besieged homes,” Khoudary said.

“We have received many complaints from the people of Beit Lahiya who say they are still stuck and need to be released. They don’t have food, water or medical aid,” he said.

“Besides the airstrikes and continued gunfire, the army has heavily deployed quadcopters used by the Israeli army to shoot and kill Palestinians in different areas across the Gaza Strip,” said Khoudary.

Later on Saturday, the Israeli military reported that two rockets fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip were intercepted.

The launch of the program demonstrates the ability of the Palestinian army to fire rockets at Israel despite more than 13 months of air and ground attacks that have turned large swathes of land into desert and displaced most of the 2.3 million people.

Israel’s massacre in Gaza has killed at least 43,799 Palestinians and wounded 103,601 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led offensive that day, and more than 200 were captured.