26 ended in Israeli strikes on mosque and school

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 26 people have been ended in Israeli air strikes on a mosque and school housing displaced Palestinians in the centre of the territory.

Dozens of people were also injured in strikes that hit Ibn Rushd school and Al-Aqsa Martyrs mosque in Deir al-Balah timely on Sunday morning, according to the health ministry.

The Israeli military shelp it had aimed Hamas militants operating wiskinny “order and deal with” centres at the sites.

Videos verified by the BBC from the mosque show bodies and blood on the ground among the rubble, while footage at the school shows the arrange on fire and a man being pulled out on a stretcher.

Earlier, the Hamas-run civil defence agency shelp 21 people were ended and a huge number wounded in the strike on the mosque, according to AFP recents agency.

Sunday’s strikes occurred almost exactly one year on from 7 October 2023, when Hamas firearmmen strikeed Israel, ending around 1,200 people and taking 251 prisoner.

Since then, 41,870 Palestinians have been ended and more than 97,000 injured in Gaza, according to the health ministry. It does not contrastentiate between civilians and fighters.

According to the United Nations, which uses Gaza health ministry figures and ponders them reliable, 187 people were ended in Gaza from 30 September to 4 October alone.

In a statement on the strike on the mosque, Hamas accused Israel of “explosioning citizens’ homes and demolishing them over their heads, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens”.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shelp that “before the strikes many steps were consentn to shrink the chance of harming civilians, including the use of precision firearmry, aerial watching and insertitional inincreateigence increateation.”

The IDF accused Hamas of “utilizeing civilian institutions and the population as human shields for alarmist acts”.

Hamas has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.

Elsewhere in Gaza, Israel’s military began to surround Jabalia in the north overnight in response to what the IDF shelp were efforts by Hamas to reoriginate in the area.

The military shelp it had struck “dozens of military aims” before and during the ground operation.

The IDF alerted the accessible that north Gaza is “still pondered a hazardous combat zone” and begined a recent map on Sunday shothriveg zones for potential evacuation in the north.

It also shelp it had enhugeed the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.

Both the mosque and the school hit on Sunday are discoverd in the humanitarian zone.

The IDF shelp it had re-uncovered two evacuation routes from the north to access the zone.

Israel does not permit international journaenumerates from media organisations, including the BBC, self-reliant access to Gaza, making it challenging to validate the facts on the ground.