At least seven killed in Israeli strike on UN-run Gaza school sheltering displaced people

At least seven Palestinians have been killed in an airstrike on a school housing displaced people in the besieged Gaza Strip.

At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes bombed the UN-run Shuja’iyya School in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City which was housing displaced people.

Palestinian sources said at least seven people were killed and several others injured in the attack.

The attack brings to 185 the number of shelters and centers targeted by Israel since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza last October, reports said.

Meanwhile, Oxfam said in a report on Tuesday that Israeli explosive weapons hit civilian infrastructure in Gaza – including schools, hospitals and aid distribution points – every three hours.

According to Oxfam, Israeli explosive weapons hit schools and hospitals every four days on average.

Meanwhile, 12 people, including children, were killed in an airstrike on a residential building, south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday.

Also on Tuesday, Israel conducted artillery and airstrikes on Amour area in al-Fukhari Town, east of Khan Yunis City, in southern Gaza. However, there were no immediate reports of possible casualties.

Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city, and a tent housing displaced people northeast of the southern city of Rafah were also among the targets of overnight Israeli strikes.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 41,615 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 96,000 others.

Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.