GAZA: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter to the southeast of the city of Gaza Saturday evening killed five Palestinians and injured others, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli fighter jets targeted Shuhada Az-Zaytoun School sheltering displaced persons, killing at least five civilians and injuring others.

They added that the Israeli occupation forces had targeted 172 accommodation centres, including 152 schools sheltering displaced persons, since the onset of the Israeli genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces have issued a new order to displaced Palestinians in designated large blocks in the northern war-torn Strip to evacuate immediately.

A spokesperson for the occupation forces told Palestinians in the Al-Mansiya, Sheikh Zayed and Mashrou’ Beit Lahia neighbourhoods that these areas are ‘currently considered a dangerous combat zone’.

Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disrega
rd of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 41,182 Palestinians and injuring over 95,280 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA