Agencies
Gaza/West Bank
At least 31 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip, 24 of them just within the past 12 hours, health authorities said.
Ten died in a western Gaza neighbourhood when the Israeli military dropped a bomb, partially destroying a school which had been turned into a shelter for thousands of displaced families. At least three bombs were then dropped on the school as rescuers and volunteers inside the facility were trying to help people from under the rubble.
Those three bombs destroyed the facility completely. This is the tactic that the Israeli military has widely used in the past. The military drops a bomb that partially destroys facilities, namely evacuation centres, killing a number of people, and then within a few minutes, it drops other bombs.
Meanwhile, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local hospital reports from Saturday.
The victims included a local commander of the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, al-Qassam Brigades. The other four bodies could not initially be identified.
Four more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike a short time later, which came after the Israeli military reportedly returned to Tulkarem and came under fire.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa confirmed the deaths in the clash.
In Gaza, at least 10 people were killed when two Israeli strikes targeted the school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.
In footage obtained and verified by Al Jazeera, victims of the Israeli attack on Hamama School are seen arriving at al-Ahli Hospital. Among the seriously wounded were children, some of whom appeared to be unconscious, as medical staff desperately tried to treat them.
The situation in the West Bank has significantly worsened since the beginning of the war in Gaza unleashed by the unprecedented attacks by Hamas and other groups on October 7.
The Health Ministry in the West Bank said 578 Palestinians have been killed since then in Israeli military operations, confrontations or their own attacks.
