Israels Military Strikes Northern Gaza After Days of Deadly Bombardment
Israel’s military said it carried out strikes and raids in northern Gaza on Sunday after days of deadly bombardments across the territory.The military said in a statement that it had targeted a “terrorist meeting point” in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, among other actions.Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, reported that Israeli forces had raided a school building in the town and forced displaced families sheltering there to evacuate in unsafe conditions, killing and wounding several amid bombardment and gunfire.
The reports could not be independently verified.Since October, Israel’s military has conducted some of its most devastating attacks in northern Gaza in an effort to crush what it says is a resurgence of the Hamas militant group in the area.The military has called on civilians in much of northern Gaza to evacuate, but many have nowhere to go and have not left.
The United Nations has warned of dire conditions and the risk of famine for some 400,000 civilians there.The raids and bombings on Sunday came after several days of intense bombardment across Gaza.Israel’s military said it struck a school building in Gaza City on Saturday, describing it as a command and control center where militants were operating and planning attacks.
The Palestinian Civil Defense, the main emergency service in Gaza, said in a statement on Saturday that seven people were killed and 12 others were wounded when a school building sheltering displaced families was hit.Late on Thursday, a deadly attack on a residential block in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 31 people and wounded 90 others according to a spokesman for Al Awda Hospital near Jabaliya, a major medical center in northern Gaza, where the majority of the casualties were taken.Photographs taken by news agencies in the days after the strike showed people walking through the debris of severely damaged buildings.
The Israeli military did not comment on the strike.Israel’s ...