4 killed, 20 injured as Israel bombs school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestine

Four Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Amr Ibn Al-As School, which shelters displaced Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the northern Gaza City.

Medical teams transported four fatalities and 20 injuries, including children, due to the bombing of the school, medical sources told Anadolu.

Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a prayer area inside the school, which shelters thousands of displaced Palestinians.

Earlier, Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency stated that “a number of Palestinians were martyred and injured as a result of an Israeli airstrike targeting the Amr Ibn Al-As School, which shelters displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan area."

Israel has targeted several schools sheltering displaced people in recent months, committing “massacres” against civilians inside them, particularly women and children.

Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 40,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 94,700 others, according to local health authorities.

An ongoing blockade of the enclave has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine, leaving much of the region in ruins.

Israel faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala