A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, has urged Israel’s ally Washington to put an end to “blind support that leads to the killing of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, women, and the elderly”, Al Jazeera reports.

Abu Rudeineh’s statement released by the official Wafa news agency comes hours after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing more than 100 people.

The spokesman said that “this heinous crime” comes on the heels of the Biden administration’s allocation of $3.5m to Israel for weapons, making Washington “directly responsible for this massacre, and for the continuation of the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip for the tenth month running”.