Israeli Airstrike Hits UN College In Gaza, Kills At Least 34 Folks

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes throughout Gaza in a single day and Wednesday hit a U.N. faculty sheltering displaced Palestinian households in addition to two houses, killing at the least 34 individuals, together with 19 girls and kids, hospital officers stated.

The deadliest strike got here Wednesday afternoon, concentrating on the U.N.’s Al-Jaouni Preparatory Boys College in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli navy stated it was concentrating on Hamas militants planning assaults from inside the varsity. The declare couldn’t be independently confirmed.

A minimum of 14 useless from the strike, together with two youngsters and a girl, had been delivered to Awda and al-Aqsa Martyrs hospitals close by, officers from the amenities stated. A minimum of 18 individuals had been wounded within the strike, they stated.

One of many youngsters killed was the daughter of Momin Selmi, a member of Gaza’s civil protection company, which works rescuing wounded and our bodies after strikes, the company stated in a press release. Selmi hadn’t seen his daughter for 10 months, since he remained in north Gaza to maintain working whereas his household fled south, the company stated.

Tens of hundreds of Palestinians pushed from their houses by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders reside in Gaza’s colleges. The al-Jaouni faculty, one in every of many in Gaza run by the U.N. company for Palestinians UNWRA, has been hit by a number of strikes over the course of the warfare.

Palestinians stand within the courtyard of a college after an Israeli air strike hit the location, in Nuseirat within the central Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024. (Photograph by EYAD BABA/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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Israel continuously bombs colleges, saying they’re being utilized by Hamas militants. It blames Hamas for civilian casualties from its strikes, saying its fighters base themselves and function inside dense residential neighborhoods.

Greater than 90% of Gaza’s faculty buildings have been severely or partially broken in strikes, and greater than half the faculties housing displaced individuals have been hit, based on a survey in July by the Schooling Cluster, a group of support teams led by UNICEF and Save the Kids.

Israel’s 11-month-old marketing campaign in Gaza has killed at the least 41,084 Palestinians and wounded one other 95,029, the territory’s Health Ministry stated Wednesday. Israel launched its marketing campaign vowing to destroy Hamas after the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, by which militants killed some 1,200 individuals and kidnapped 250 others.

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Earlier Wednesday, a strike hit a house close to the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis, killing 11 individuals, together with six brothers and sisters from the identical household ranging in age from 21 months to 21 years outdated, based on the European Hospital, which acquired the casualties.

A strike late Tuesday on a house within the city Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed 9 individuals, together with six girls and kids, based on the Gaza Health Ministry and the civil protection. The civil protection stated the house belonged to Akram al-Najjar, a professor on the al-Quds Open College, who survived the strike.

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