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Not less than 65 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli assaults across the enclave on Wednesday, including 44 in Gaza City, reports Al Jazera.
This is even as Hamas’s acceptance of a United States ceasefire plan to end the genocidal two-year war remains uncertain.
Reports say two missiles struck al-Falah School on Wednesday, which had been converted into a shelter for hundreds of displaced people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City, where Israel has expanded its ground invasion alongside heavy aerial bombardment.
As Palestinian Civil Defence crews rushed to the scene, another attack critically injured many of them, including Munther Al-Dahshan, who was later confirmed to have died from his wounds.
“Eyewitnesses reported that when civil defence teams rushed to the site and tried pull people out of the rubble, a full attack targeted them, leading to critical injuries,” Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reported from Gaza City.
Medical sources at al-Ahli Arab Hospital earlier told Al Jazeera that six people were killed and others were injured in the attack.
Medical sources at al-Ahli Arab Hospital earlier told Al Jazeera that six people were killed and others were injured in the attack.
Other attacks targeted a house in the Daraj neighbourhood, killing at least seven people and injuring others, and the south-eastern Zeitoun neighbourhood, killing a child, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Forty-seven of the latest 65 Palestinian victims were killed in Gaza City, sources told Al Jazeera.
The continuous bombardment of Gaza City has razed the territory’s largest urban centre, killing dozens of people daily, destroying numerous residential buildings and schools and forcing tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee to an unknown fate to the south, often targeted on the way.
Trump has given Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his proposal.
Records show that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 66,148 people and wounded 168,716 since October 2023.
Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.