On Saturday, the Hamas health ministry reported that at least 50 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school housing displaced people in a UN-run refugee camp in northern Hamas. Gaza strip.
This strike took place at dawn on the al-Fakhoura school in the Jabaliya camp, according to a ministry official who spoke to AFP. Images circulating on social media show bodies, some bloodied and others covered in dust, inside the building where mattresses had been placed under school tables.
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At the beginning of November, the Hamas government announced more than 200 deaths and hundreds of injuries due to Israeli bombardments on the Jabaliya refugee camp, during various attacks spread over three days.
Jabaliya is the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, housing more than 80% of residents who are refugees or descendants of those who left their homes in 1948 when the State of Israel was established. All these residents are supported by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which manages the eight camps in the small territory. In Jabaliya, UNRWA supervises 26 schools and two health centers, while a third center is located nearby.
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Neither the Israeli army nor UNRWA immediately commented on the events when contacted by AFP. According to UNRWA, at least 71 displaced people were killed and 573 injured while they were in the 154 structures it opened in the Gaza Strip.
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