Israel strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter kills 17, hospital says

An Israeli airstrike connected a schoolhouse building successful cardinal Gaza has killed astatine slightest 17 people, according to a section hospital.

Al-Awda infirmary told AFP and Reuters that nan onslaught connected Thursday deed nan Al-Shuhada schoolhouse successful nan Nuseirat exile camp.

The Hamas-run authorities media agency reported nan aforesaid decease toll and said nan schoolhouse was being utilized arsenic a shelter for displaced people.

Videos from nan scene, verified by nan BBC, show wounded children being carried retired successful nan arms of men.

Israel said it had targeted a Hamas bid centre astatine nan tract "used by nan terrorists to scheme and execute violent attacks" against Israel and its troops.

The authorities media agency said "thousands of displaced people” were utilizing nan schoolhouse arsenic a shelter erstwhile nan onslaught hit, “most of them children and women".

Nine children were among nan 17 killed, pinch much than 52 injured, nan media agency added.

Mahmud Bassal, spokesperson for Gaza's civilian defence agency, besides told AFP that 17 group were killed and dozens wounded.

In caller weeks, nan Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has deed respective buildings being utilized arsenic shelters crossed Gaza, saying it was targeting Hamas unit and infrastructure.

Israel does not let world media organisations - including nan BBC - independent entree to Gaza, making it difficult to verify facts connected nan ground, truthful we trust connected accusation from video footage and testimonies, arsenic good arsenic Israeli and Hamas charismatic statements.

In bluish Gaza, nan IDF has been intensifying a weeks-long offensive against what it said were Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.

According to nan Gaza wellness ministry, astatine slightest 650 group had been killed since nan caller violative successful nan northbound began.

The Israeli subject said it was facilitating evacuations of civilians while it continued “operating against terrorists and violent infrastructure”.

But residents unwilling aliases incapable to comply pinch Israeli removal orders are said to beryllium surviving successful progressively hopeless conditions, pinch nutrient and different basal supplies moving out.

The last shape of an emergency polio vaccination run successful nan area has been postponed by UN agencies because of aggravated Israeli bombardments, wide displacement and deficiency of access.

The past shape of nan two-stage rollout - prompted by Gaza’s first lawsuit of polio successful 25 years, which near a babe boy paralyzed - was owed to statesman connected Wednesday.

Almost 120,000 children successful bluish Gaza had been expected to person a 2nd dose of nan oral polio vaccine.