Israel strikes kill 26 Palestinians today: civil defence

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Gaza’s civil defence agency has said that Israeli bombardment killed at least 26 people, 15 of them in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

“Our teams retrieved 15 martyrs and 10 injured individuals after Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the Al-Karama school, which shelters displaced persons… in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City,” spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

One strike hit a family home in the southern city of Khan Younis, where eight members of the Al-Qidra family were killed and 12 others wounded, Bassal said. The ages of the dead ranged from two to 54, he added.

AFP footage from Khan Yunis showed wounded children crying on hospital beds while bodies covered in blankets arrived in ambulances at the city’s Nasser Hospital.

“They were sleeping and the house collapsed on them,” said Abir Shehab, adding her brother had been killed. “We die of hunger, we die of war, we die of fear, we die of everything, and the whole world stands by and watches us die,” she said.

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