Deaths reported as Israel shells Palestinian shelters in northern Gaza

Fatalities were reported in Israeli artillery shelling targeting a school and clinic sheltering displaced civilians in the northern Gaza city of yesterday, according to witnesses.

Israeli occupation forces shelled the Abu Hussein School and Al-Fakhoura Clinic, both run by UNRWA in Jabalia, witnesses said.

The attack came hours after at least 87 people were killed and 40 others injured in an Israeli air strike that destroyed an entire residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

On Thursday, at least 25 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli strike on the same school.

Israel has systematically targeted civilian facilities, including schools, hospitals and places of worship, amid its ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Under the rules of war, targeting such civilian facilities can constitute a war crime.

The Israeli occupation has pressed ahead with a massive offensive, now in its 16th day, in northern Gaza amid a suffocating siege on the area.

The onslaught was the latest episode in Israel’s brutal onslaught that has killed more than 42,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 99,800 others since October last year.

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