in Jabalia, where thousands of evacuees were living. At least 15 people died and dozens more were wounded, said Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, an official in the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave.
Juliette Touma, director of communication for the U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), confirmed to Reuters that the U.N-run school had been hit. She said there were children among the casualties, but that UNRWA had not yet been able to verify the exact death toll.
“At least one strike hit the schoolyard where there were tents for displaced families. Another strike hit inside the school where women were baking bread,” Touma said by phone.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said another Israeli missile strike killed two women at the door of the Nasser Children’s Hospital. Several more people were injured, it said.
Gaza health officials said on Saturday that more than 9,488 Palestinians have been killed so far in the Israeli assault.
Israel’s ground forces encircled Gaza City on Thursday after stepping up a bombing campaign it says aims at wiping out Hamas, after the militant group killed 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostages in an Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel.
