Updated 19.17 | Published 07.20
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At least 50 people may have been killed in an Israeli dawn raid on a school in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Video clips show terrified children among bloody dead bodies inside the school building.
Another 32 people may have been killed in an attack on a nearby building.
The information is still unconfirmed.
The al-Fakhura school is located in Gaza’s largest refugee camp, Jabalia, and is run by UNRWAUNRWAFN’s body for Palestinian refugees.. Recently, it is said to have functioned as a refugee camp.
A source told the AFP news agency that the Israeli attack took place at dawn.
Videos on social media show bodies covered in blood and dust on the floor of a building where mattresses have been pulled under school desks.
It is still unclear if the information is correct, however BBC states that they have pictures from the scene that show many injured.
The data on the attack and the number of dead comes from the Palestinian Health Authority, which is controlled by Hamas.
The Israeli army has not confirmed the attacks.
– I cannot confirm that the IDF is behind this event. But just like you, we see the pictures in social media. We are looking into it, says IDFID, the Israeli army. IDF stands for Israel Defense Forces. spokesperson Peter Lerner told the BBC.
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini has posted a post on X where he comments on the videos: “Horrible images of scores of people killed and injured,” he writes.
Later on Saturday, the health authority reported another Israeli attack in Jabalia. A building is said to have been hit and killed 32 people, 19 of whom were children. Most of them must have belonged to the same family, the Abu Habal family.
Neither has this information been confirmed.
There are also reports that Israeli attacks have been directed at the refugee camp near the town of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
According to the head of the region’s hospital, Nasser Hospital, they have received bodies of people who were said to have been killed in the attack.
The intense fighting between Israel and Hamas has now been going on for over six weeks.
Well over 10,000 people have died and around 1.6 million people are displaced in Gaza. The borders are closed so many of them end up in the Jabalia refugee camp.
FACT Background
The terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel early in the morning on October 7 – thereby starting the bloodiest war the region has experienced since the 40s.
Armed Hamas militiamen made a coordinated move across the border while thousands of rockets were fired at Israeli territory.
According to Israeli estimates, around 1,200 people were killed, most of them unarmed civilians who were shot, stabbed and burned to death. On several kibbutzim and a music festival arranged near the border, pure massacres were carried out.
It is the deadliest attack on Israel in the country’s history.
Around 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas and taken from Israel to Palestine. It is unclear how many of them are still alive.
Israel responded to the Hamas attack with full-scale war and has since peppered the Gaza Strip with airstrikes. Gaza City has largely been left in ruins.
A low-intensity ground invasion has also begun and Hamas is said to have lost control over large parts of Gaza.
More than 12,000 people are believed to have been killed, several thousand of them children, according to Palestinian health authorities. However, the figures are very uncertain, partly because many dead may still be buried in the ruins after the Israeli attacks and partly because the authorities are controlled by Hamas.
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