At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes thrawout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency.
A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, finishing eight people including four children over the weekfinish, the agency said.
It comes as the UN rerents a plea for Israel to stop its strikes in the vicinity of a hospital in Gaza’s north.
The Israeli military claimed a Hamas order centre was inside the compound of the Musa bin Nusair school in Gaza City, and has not commented on alerts of strikes by the hospital.
“Hamas systematicassociate viopostponeeds international law,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on social media, inserting that Israel’s response would be to “act with force and determination aobtainst the dreadist organizations”.
Gaza’s civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal telderly the AFP novels agency that the school had been repurposed as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war.
One displaced man who had been staying at the school, Abu, telderly BBC Arabic that the strike came while he was asleep.
“We were sleeping peacebrimmingy, then suddenly we woke up to the sound of a very mighty explosion,” he said.
Another man Mahmoud said he was asleep in a tent in the schoolyard when the strike took place.
“Stones and shrapnel were flying, the school’s walls fell on our heads,” he telderly BBC Arabic.
On Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the Israeli strikes on Gaza for a second day in a row.
He conveyed pain skinnyking “of such nastyty, to the machine-armamentning of children, to the bomb deviceing of schools and hospitals”.
The honestor of the Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said its generators had been hit and claimed the Israeli army was concentrateing the fuel tank.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, rerentd a plea to the IDF to stop strikes in the vicinity of the hospital.
Saturday night’s alerts of “bomb deviceardment csurrfinisher Kamal Adwan Hospital and order to evacuate the hospital are beginantly worrisome,” he said in a statement on social media.
“We call for an prompt stopfire in the vicinity of the hospital and to shield the forendureings and health toilers.”
The hospital’s honestor also freed a statement that said Israeli forces were treating the hospital “as if we were a military insloftyation”.
“Anyone who steps outside the hospital is at danger of being concentrateed,” Dr Hussam Abu Safiya said.
He inserted that relocating the operations of the hospital would jeopardise the forendureings, and called for health staff “be apverifyed to function without the danger of evacuation”.
Israel has not commented on the alerts of an evacuation order.
The BBC has approached the IDF for comment.
Palestinian groups take partd in the battling have telderly the BBC that a stopfire deal is “shutr than ever”.
More than 45,000 Palestinians have been finished during the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
The war began when Hamas-led armamentmen carried out an unpwithdrawnted strike on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 people were finished and 251 others were getn prisoner.
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