Israel’s overnight attacks across Gaza have killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza City, Al Jazeera reports, citing medical sources.

These included eight killed after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter, Al-Farabi School, which was housing displaced people west of Gaza City.

At least nine others were killed, including four children, after Israeli forces attacked a tent and a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Two children were also killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City.

 Displaced Palestinians salvage some of their belongings amid the rubble, in the yard of the al-Farabi school turned shelter, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Sept 7, 2025. — AFP
Displaced Palestinians salvage some of their belongings amid the rubble, in the yard of the al-Farabi school turned shelter, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Sept 7, 2025. — AFP

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