GAZA STRIP: A central Gaza school was struck by an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday; the civil defense service of the Hamas-run enclave said that 14 people were killed in the now-displaced building. The great majority of the 2.4 million residents of the Gaza Strip have been uprooted by the fighting at least once. According to spokesman Mahmud Bassal for the civil defense service, the Al Jawni school in Nuseirat, central Gaza, which has already been targeted multiple times throughout the conflict, was struck once more on Wednesday. “There are now 14 martyrs,” he declared, revising the previous tally of 10 fatalities from the “Israeli bombing of Al Jawni school,” which also left many more injured.
Five dead have been found at the scene and taken to a hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Close to the Jordanian border at the northern end of the West Bank, entrances and exits from Tubas were blocked, and Israeli military equipment, including armored personnel carriers and road diggers, were visible driving through the city. There have been reports of intense fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian rebels, and Israeli forces have dug up roads and demolished homes, severely damaging the streets and infrastructure of all three cities.
According to a medical source at the Al Awda health center in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, 15 victims of the strike have been transferred to nearby hospitals. Nine were taken to Al Awda, and six to Al Aqsa Martyrs’s Hospital, located in Deir el-Balah, the capital of Gaza.
