At least 40 Gazans, including 14 children, were killed in the Israeli attack. At the UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) school, which was housing dozens of displaced people, in Nuseirat, central Gaza, medical sources said.

“The Israeli occupation army killed 40 displaced people in the Nuseirat massacre, including fourteen children and nine women. “He injured 74 more people, including 23 children and 18 women.” This was reported by the press service of the Gaza authorities, who accused Israel of “bombing dozens of displaced persons who were in the school.”

Jalil al-Dakran, a spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, located in the city of Deir al-Balah, assured that the intensification of bombing and the launch of a new Israeli ground operation in the area since Tuesday led to the hospital arriving in the last 24 hours more than 140 dead and 380 wounded, as reported by a Palestinian newspaper Filastinassociated with Hamas.

The Israeli army confirmed the attack and indicated that The school was located in a compound owned by the Islamist group Hamas. and that “the terrorists who took part in the murderous attack on communities in southern Israel on October 7, which were destroyed,” were hiding there.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza government has, however, assured that many of the victims were civilians taking refuge in the school and called the attack a “horrific massacre,” although Israel says “measures were taken to reduce the risk of harm to bystander civilians.”

“Reconnaissance-controlled fighter planes carried out a precision attack on a Hamas compound infiltrated into an UNRWA school in Nuseirat,” the military said in a statement.

This was reported by the official Palestinian agency Wafa. Israeli aircraft attacked the upper floors of the school with a missile at 2:15 local time, while people were sleeping.

The army assured that Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces operated in the complex. and belonged to the Nukhba forces, an elite Hamas unit whose operatives took part in the October 7 attack in Israel that killed about 1,200 people and abducted 250.

“Terrorists carried out terrorist attacks on school grounds. while they exploited it and used it as a refuge. “As a result of the attack, several terrorists who were planning terrorist attacks and promoting terrorist activities against troops in the near future were eliminated,” he added.

Dozens of people were also injured as a result of the attack. According to the Gaza government, they were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, which is already on the verge of collapse after one of its generators broke down and is caring for three times as many patients as it can handle accept. It is the only operating hospital in the heart of the sector, with the capacity to care for one million people.

This same hospital Yesterday 75 dead and dozens of wounded were reported Israeli military operation in the Bureij refugee camp and in part of Deir el-Balah, in the center of the enclave. About 140 people were killed and 380 injured in the past 24 hours, a hospital spokesman said.

Vafa too reported other attacks in the center of the Sector, which killed six people, one against a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, as well as air and artillery attacks on the Bureij camp, which had already come under heavy attack yesterday, and Magazi.

The agency also reports artillery shelling of southern Gaza City and in northeastern Khan Younis, as well as explosions with “intense fire” in Rafah, at the southern tip of the enclave.

In Rafah, Army confirms killing of three suspected combatants who tried to jump over the Gaza Strip fence to attack soldiers operating in the area.

“The plane that was tracking the terrorist cell attacked the terrorists and eliminated two of them. “Shortly afterwards, another terrorist was killed by tank fire,” he said.

Camp Nuseirat, established in 1970. It hosted approximately 80,200 refugees before the conflict began.According to UNRWA, there are 15 school buildings, a food distribution center, two health centers, two social services offices and a maintenance and sanitation office.

The camp, like the Bureij and Magazi camps, is located in the center of the Gaza Strip – in the province of Deir el-Balah. Both the city of Deir el-Balah and the Bureij camp have been the targets of a new Israeli military operation since Tuesday. with the stated goal of destroying Hamas’ “terrorist infrastructure.”

Eight months of war led to more than 36,580 dead and 83,000 wounded, in addition to the estimated 10,000 missing under the rubble, according to the ministry.

(according to information from EFE and Europe Press)