Israeli forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers.
The latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 80. Most of the victims were women and children, said Palestinian Civil Defence.
Reports from Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where some of those injured were brought, say burned women and children “crying out in pain and agony” fill available space on the hospital floor.
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The assault came after a deadlier strike hit tents near the entrance to Khan Younis’s al-Awda school on July 9, killing at least 29 people.
