At least 31 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on school shelter in Gaza

AFP , Wednesday 7 May 2025

Israeli strikes on a school sheltering displaced people in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip killed 31 people and wounded dozens, Gaza's civil defence agency said Wednesday.

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Palestinian men carry a body during a funeral procession at a UNRWA school housing displaced people, following an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, on May 7, 2025. AFP

 

In separate attacks on Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people, including a child and eight members of one family.

The deadliest strike hit a family home in the southern city of Khan Yunis, where eight members of the Al-Qidra family were killed and 12 others wounded, Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.

The ages of the dead ranged from two years old to 54, he added.

An Israeli air strike on a home in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killed three people and wounded eight, Bassal said.

The strikes came as Israel drew international condemnation on Tuesday over its plans for an expanded Gaza war, including full occupation of the Palestinian territory.

In early March, Israel blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza, including food, plunging the territory of 2.3 million people into what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis since the war began.

Two weeks later, Israel shattered an eight-week-long ceasefire deal in Gaza by resuming deadly bombardment, killing at least 2,600  Palestinians since then.

Since the start of its war on Gaza in October 2023, Israel has killed more than 52,615 Palestinians and displaced nearly all of Gaza's 2.4 million people.

On Tuesday, senior Hamas official Basem Naim said that "There is no sense in engaging in talks or considering new ceasefire proposals as long as the hunger war and extermination war continue in the Gaza Strip".

*This story was edited by Ahram Online.

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