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US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday killed more than 100 Palestinians, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as relentless strikes pounded areas across the Strip.
Attacks on Thursday included the bombing of a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinian civilians in Gaza City. According to the Anadolu Agency, at least 29 people were killed in the strike. Footage of the aftermath of the attack shows dead and wounded children.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said the dead included 18 children, women, and elderly people, and more than 100 were wounded. “The occupation has committed a new massacre against displaced persons by bombing Dar al-Arqam School in Gaza City,” the Media Office said in a statement.
Al Jazeera reported later in the day that the same school was bombed again while rescue workers were still at the scene. “This new attack will likely increase the number of casualties. We are awaiting further updates from the scene,” said Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud.
Other Israeli attacks on Thursday included the bombing of al-Mawasi, a tent camp that the Israeli military just ordered Palestinians in Rafah to flee to. Eyewitnesses told Middle East Eye that an Israeli strike targeted a building surrounded by tents in al-Mawasi in the middle of the night, killing at least seven people, including women and children.
The day of ramped-up Israeli attacks came after Israeli officials announced the Israeli military would be expanding its ground assault to seize more territory in southern Gaza, although Thursday’s strikes were very heavy in northern Gaza, with 58 reported killed in Gaza City. The IDF is also conducting a ground assault on eastern Gaza City.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that since Israel restarted its genocidal war on March 18, which it did with full US support, at least 1,163 Palestinians have been killed, and 2,735 have been wounded.
