At least 14 people, including two children and a woman, have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence agency and hospital officials.
Witnesses told media that people were waiting for food when Israeli jets struck jets struck the United Nations-run al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday.
media’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, who visited the site, said he saw a “tremendous amount of destruction” with “piles of rubble scattered around the area” and a missile stuck in the ground.
He said emergency workers had “been digging the rubble with their bare hands due to the lack of basic equipment”.
Fourteen people killed in the attack were brought to al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospitals nearby, officials from the facilities said. At least 18 people were wounded in the strike, they said.
The Israeli army said in a statement that the air force targeted a Hamas command and control centre.
Without providing evidence, it said the compound was used to plan and carry out attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza and against Israel.
The school is at least the sixth to be targeted by Israeli shelling or air raids since August 1.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders are sheltering in Gaza’s schools.
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