Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 24, say medical and employees

At least 24 Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike in the school shelter, displaced families in central gas, according to medical officers and civil defense.

The shot is aimed at the Fahmi Al-Dargavi School in Gaza, which lived hundreds of displaced people who fled from the northern city of Bate Lahia, currently under an intense Israeli military attack.

A spokesman for the Hamas Civil Protection Agency in Gaza said 20 bodies, including children, were restored by the school – many of them were heavily burned – after fires have swallowed two classrooms, converted into living quarters.

The Israeli military is related to comment.

“The flames were everywhere. I saw charred bodies lying on the ground,” says Rami Rafik, a resident living in the school, in a phone call with the BBC. “My son fainted when he saw the horrific scene.”

Video footage, shared online, showed large fires consuming parts of the school, with graphic images of highly burned victims, including children, and survivors who suffered critical injuries.

Local reports said that the dead were Mohammed al-Casich, the head of investigations into Hamas police in North Gaza, along with his wife and children.

Shortly before the school strike, another Israeli air strike struck a home in a central Gaza, killing four more people, Hamas Health Ministry said.

The twin attacks are part of the width of Israeli offensive, which escalated in the northern part of the enclave in the last week.

On Friday, an Israeli hit at the home of Palestinian doctor in Gaza killed nine of her 10 children. Dr. Alaa Al-Najar’s 11-year-old son was wounded, along with her husband Hamdi Al-Nadjar, who is in critical condition.

Nine children – Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra – were between just a few months and 12. The Israeli military said the incident was discussed.

Meanwhile, the Red Cross said two of its employees were killed at a strike at their home in Han Eunice on Saturday.

The assassination of Ibrahim Ayd, a weapon pollution officer, and Ahmad Abu Hilal, a security guard at the Red Cross Hospital in Rafa, “pointing to the unbearable civil death in Gaza,” the ICC said, repeating his call to end the fire.

On Sunday A controversial organization approved by the US and Israel This seeks to use private companies to provide assistance to gas.

In a statement by the Humanitarian Foundation Gaza, CEO Jake Wood said it became apparent that plans to create distribution centers would not meet the “humanitarian principles” of independence and neutrality.

Israel imposed a total blockade of gas on March 2, which lasted 11 weeks before allowing limited assistance to enter the territory in the conditions of hunger warnings and increasing international outrage.

The Israeli military body COGAT said on Saturday morning that 388 trucks carrying help have entered Gaza on Monday. The UN says much more help is needed – between 500 and 600 trucks a day.

Meanwhile, 20 countries and organizations met in Madrid on Sunday to discuss the termination of the war in Gaza. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has called for Israel’s arms embargo if he did not stop his attacks.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 53 939 people, including at least 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the health ministry in the territory.