A total of at least 34 people were killed, including 19 women and children, when Israeli missiles hit homes across Gaza on Wednesday, hospital officials said.
The UNRWA said one of the children killed at the school was the daughter of Momin Selmi, a member of Gaza’s civil defence agency, which rescues wounded people and retrieves bodies after strikes.
Earlier, the IDF struck a home near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing 11 people, including six brothers and sisters ranging in age from 21 months to 21 years old, according to the European Hospital, which received the casualties.
A strike late Tuesday on a home in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed nine people, including six women and children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry. The home reportedly belonged to Akram al-Najjar, a professor at the al-Quds Open University, who survived.
‘School has been targeted five times’
Gaza’s schools are packed with tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders.
At least 12,000 people have been sleeping at the al-Jaouni school. Witnesses told the Al Jazeera news agency that people were waiting for food there when IDF jets arrived overhead.
The UNRWA said six staffers aiding the displaced, including the manager of the shelter, were killed.
“Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war,” the agency’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote on X.