On Thursday, Israeli strikes targeted a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killing at least 28 and wounding 54.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the number of dead and wounded was based on bodies and injured people who were brought to hospitals and morgues, meaning the toll could rise.
The breakdown of the casualties is unclear, but footage and photos of the aftermath of the attack show many women and children were killed and wounded. “Children and women were torn to pieces by the intensity of the strike,” said Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum.
“I saw with my own eyes lots of bodies that were torn to pieces, making it quite hard to identify them unless family members managed to find out who they were from some signs in their clothing in the hospital morgue,” Azzoum added.
Nahed al-Zaneen, a Palestinian who teaches displaced children at tents outside of the Rafadi school, told Middle East Eye that he was just meters away from the blast. “I get out, and all I see is shreds of bodies all over the floor. Heads blown up, innocent children scattered across the floor,” he said.
As usual, the Israeli military claimed it targeted a Hamas “command and control center” but offered no evidence for the claim. Schools sheltering displaced Palestinians have become frequent targets of the Israeli military.
Strikes continued across other parts of Gaza on Thursday, including in north Gaza, where Israeli forces are trying to cleanse the entire area of Palestinians.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 55 Palestinians were killed and 166 were wounded in the previous 24-hour period, bringing its death toll since last October to 42,065 and the number of wounded to 97,886.
The ministry’s figures do not include the estimated 10,000 Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza have said they believe over 118,000 Palestinians have been killed, a number that accounts for starvation deaths and other indirect causes.
The Likud’s willing executioners……
CNN, MSNBC, Fox, all of MSM are covering this with vigor. Pictures of the suffering of the Palestinians are leaping off the the screen. /s
war crime
Does JOE BIDEN know what he is doing?
Do any of us?
Good question.
Its like im redoing[relearning] the same insanity over the years from those days of kneeling by the bed reading passages from the bible with mom, brothers and sisters while being utterly disgusted by the embrace and glorification of violence if its done for a 'good cause' in virtually all those lovely stories of horror. 66 years of this and i cant complain because Noam Chomsky and Jimmy Carter(Peace not Apartheid) are both nearly 100 and they still havent surrendered to the dark force. But man, the abyss is abysmal…Schopenhauer and George Carlin were right…Or maybe this is hell, were all dead and we are suffering our sentences…Wheres my vape!
FYI, President Carter just turned 100 a week a few days or so ago.
President Carter a president who truly lived his religion, Biden should have been excommunicated a long time ago. But, popes are politicians too, history proves it.
yea, i signed his birthday card and forgot about it( i do that simetimes.lol). The Carter Center is the only organization that i know that consistently sends me a christmas card after decades every year and never missed one…Last year it was a self portrait of jimmy in his studio painting with the intensity of a picasso…
He was a good president, the way he has been treated is shameful in my opinion. He was a president with integrity and honesty, that was too much for the established political elite.
Crimes against humanity…
All those loud explosions in the Middle East are nails going into Israel's coffin. Israel is the AGRESSOR, not a "retaliating" nation. Israel started this whole charade by letting October 7 happen, even edging it on! You make your bed; you sleep in it!
They started it long before, going back to 1948 and even earlier and the Irgun.
There are no words to tell.
The ministry’s figures do not include the estimated 10,000 Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
That number hasn't changed for months, and rubble has been continued to be made. I'm thinking that too is a gross undercount just like the total amount killed and the total amount injured. And isn't it amazing how Hamas has all these "command and control" centers that are in the wide open when they have that complex tunnel system. Like they just haven't figured out that the Israeli terrorists really don't care if they are packed with women and children, and they will bomb them anyway. But hey, when has Israel's word ever been in doubt(/s)?
Lancet estimated 186,000 are dead.
The open letter from doctors, as well as other medical professionals, put the dead at 118,000.
Every day the Zionist murderers increase the total.
Prof. Mearsheimer doubled even the Lancet estimate and even that is conservative he thinks of the dead and missing. We may never know the truth.
The IDF and Israeli military are the consummate cowards. Any empathy for these utter fiends after October 7th has been shredded. They need to be defanged and put out of business. Ugh…
They should be tied to chairs in a remaining hospital emergency room and make them see and hear what they are doing to children and their parents and siblings. They should be amputated without anesthetics so they understand what it feels like. These people deserve to be hated.
And the indiscriminate slaughtering of civilians continues, days and nights.
Moral shame on all leaders of our times!
What Nazi Adolf Hitler was to the 20th Century, Zionist Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be to the 21st Century.
To be fair, we should not forget our ruling American leadership. At the top is sadistic evil JOE BIDEN, Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland, Trump, Harris and many, many more, including senators like Graham and congressmen/women, AND our journalists in MSM and all the voters who do know but are in denial. All of them are morally on the same level Hitler is.
Evil is evil, it is like being a little pregnant.
All the evil is heartbreaking, but nothing more than the suffering of the children. And the inhumane politicians all know it, every pilot who drops a 2000 pound bomb, or clusterbombs, white phosphor, knows it is a war crime. All of us know of the destructions of the buildings with the red cross, hospitals and schools, but the press speakers don't know about it, they present lies daily they do their job like Eichmann did his job.