The Hamas Gaza health ministry said most of those killed were women and children.
The media office said 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women were among the dead.
Gaza hospital warns of shutting down over lack of supplies
[GEO.TV] Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital described in a statement the dire conditions facing the facility.
The hospital may go out of service in ''less than 10 days'' as a result of depleted ''quantities of oil and generator spare parts''.
Situation poses a threat of ''a real humanitarian disaster'' for more than one million residents in central Gaza under fire by Israeli forces.
The hospital has been operating on generators for a year without pause during the continuing war.
World Health Organization, Red Cross, and other international organisations are urged to ''immediately and urgently'' address the hospital's deteriorating conditions.
| The Times of Israel reports: |
Hamas authorities say 13 children among fatalities at al-Falah school; senior Hamas intelligence officer and armed looters of aid killed in separate strikes
The Israel Defense Forces carried out an
...
KABOOM!...
on Saturday against a group of Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...operatives at a command room embedded within a former school in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, the military said, in an attack that reportedly killed more than 20 people.
Hamas was using the al-Falah School in the Zeitoun neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against IDF troops and against Israel, the military said. The school, inactive amid the war, had also been serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks.
According to the Gaza civil defense agency and health ministry — both run by Hamas — 21 people were killed in the strike.
"Civil Defense crews recovered 21 people, including 13 children and six women," one of whom was pregnant, agency front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
There were "around 30 injured, including nine children [needing] limb amputations, as a result of an Israeli bombing on al-Zeitoun School C" in Gaza City, he said.
To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military added.
It said the target was "embedded inside" the al-Falah School, adjacent to the al-Zeitoun School buildings. An AFP news hound at the scene confirmed that al-Zeitoun School C had been hit.
Witnesses told AFP that before the strike, orphans had gathered there because they were due to receive sponsorship from a local NGO for humanitarian assistance.
| Human shields, forbidden under the Geneva Conventions. Any harm to them is laid at the feet of those hiding behind them, in accordance with international law. |
Earlier Saturday, the military said the Israeli Air Force carried out some 20 airstrikes during the previous day. The strikes targeted buildings used by the Hamas and its operatives, the IDF said.
In another recent airstrike, the IDF said Saturday that it had killed Muhammad Mansour, a prominent Hamas intelligence officer who the military described as a "significant source of technological knowledge in Hamas’s military intelligence."
Separately, the military released footage Saturday showing dronezaps in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip against button men who had attempted to loot a humanitarian aid
convoy. The footage showed the button men climbing onto the trucks carrying humanitarian aid as they drove on a designated route.The IDF said the button men were spotted by troops, who directed a dronezap against them as they tried to flee in a car. Another gunman was killed while trying to flee the scene.
The IDF has said Hamas operatives frequently try to hijack aid deliveries before they can be distributed to civilians.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, a separate incident on Saturday saw an Israeli airstrike hit a warehouse in a "densely populated" area of southern Gaza, killing "three ministry of health personnel and a passer-by" and injuring six others.
"The warehouse was directly targeted with several missiles while doctors and staff were performing their duties, preparing to transport the medicines stored there to hospitals under the ministry of health that are facing severe shortages of medicines and supplies," a statement said.
The war has badly battered Gaza’s health sector, and the World Health Organization said earlier this month that only 17 of its 36 hospitals were partially functional.
| All those hospitals were doing fine on October 6th. Next time don’t start a war with Israel. |
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