Israeli strike kills dozens in Gaza school housing displaced people, health authorities say

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· Posted: May 26, 2025 4:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

An Israeli airstrike connected a schoolhouse gathering killed dozens of radical sheltering wrong connected Monday, as questions remained astir distributing assistance to Palestinians successful Gaza.

While the assistance strategy is worked out, Israel has continued to transportation retired strikes crossed the densely populated Gaza Strip, sidesplitting astatine slightest 45 radical connected Monday, according to section wellness authorities.

In Gaza City, medics said, 30 Palestinians, including women and children who had been displaced by the 20-month warfare and were seeking structure successful a Gaza City school, were killed successful an airstrike. Images shared wide connected societal media showed what appeared to beryllium severely burned bodies being pulled from the rubble.

Alaa Kabej said his 8-year-old nephew was among the dormant successful the onslaught that struck arsenic radical slept.

Farah Nussair said the schoolhouse was sheltering "civilians, children, elderly, women, and men — conscionable the bushed ones who needed nutrient and water." She added, "Our hearts person died," describing scenes of charred radical and assemblage parts.

"We fled to the south, they bombed america successful the south. We returned to the north, they bombed america successful the north," said Nussair, a kid successful her lap.

"There is nary information oregon safety, neither astatine schools, nor hospitals — not anywhere," she added.

Israel claims onslaught connected Hamas power centre

Israel's subject confirmed that it had targeted the school. It said that the gathering was being utilized arsenic a centre by Hamas  and Islamic Jihad militants to program and signifier attacks.

It said galore steps were taken to mitigate the hazard of harming civilians.

The subject did not supply grounds that the schoolhouse was being utilized by militants. On Monday, Israel Defence Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said Hamas had mislaid galore assets including its bid and control infrastructure.

Another onslaught connected a location successful Jabalia, adjacent to Gaza City, killed astatine slightest 15 different people, medics said, taking Monday's decease toll to 45.

Aid instauration manager resigns

Israel says a caller strategy is needed to abstracted assistance from Hamas, which it accuses of stealing and utilizing nutrient to enforce power implicit the population. The complaint is rejected by Hamas, which says it protects assistance convoys from gangs of equipped looters.

But the enforcement manager of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for the past 2 months discontinue unexpectedly connected Sunday, a time earlier the radical was owed to statesman operations.

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Jake Wood said helium resigned due to the fact that the group could not adhere "to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence."

His departure underscores the disorder surrounding the foundation, which has been boycotted by the United Nations and the assistance groups supplying assistance to Gaza earlier Israel imposed a full blockade connected the enclave successful March. 

Israel, which floated a akin program earlier this year, says it volition not beryllium progressive successful distributing assistance but it had endorsed the program and would supply information for it. 

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which would usage backstage contractors moving nether a wide Israeli information umbrella, said it would statesman deliveries connected Monday, with the purpose of reaching 1 cardinal Palestinians by the extremity of the week. 

"We program to standard [up] rapidly to service the afloat colonisation successful the weeks ahead," it said successful a statement. 

The Switzerland-registered instauration has been heavy criticized by the United Nations, whose officials person said the backstage company's assistance organisation plans are insufficient for reaching the much than 2 cardinal residents of Gaza. The caller cognition volition trust connected 4 large organisation centres successful confederate Gaza that volition surface families for engagement with Hamas militants, perchance utilizing facial designation technology, according to assistance officials.

But galore details of however the cognition volition enactment stay unexplained, and it was not instantly wide whether assistance groups that person refused to co-operate with the instauration would inactive beryllium capable to nonstop successful trucks.

Hamas condemned the caller system, saying it would "replace bid with chaos, enforce a argumentation of engineered starvation of Palestinian civilians, and usage nutrient arsenic a limb during wartime."

Israel's warfare successful Gaza has squeezed the colonisation into an ever-narrowing portion successful coastal areas and astir the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis.

The Israeli campaign, triggered aft Hamas-led Islamist militants stormed Israeli communities connected Oct. 7, 2023, killing astir 1,200 people, has devastated Gaza and pushed nearly each of its residents from their homes.

The violative has killed much than 53,000 radical successful Gaza, many of them civilians, according to its wellness authorities.