A child burns to death following the attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Civil Defence stated that its emergency workers recovered 10 bodies early on Wednesday morning after the attack on the school, where displaced individuals had sought refuge. A large number of people were also injured, as mentioned in a post on the Telegram messaging platform.
Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif expressed on social media, “Children are being burned while they sleep in the tents of the displaced.”
“There are no safe areas, and no survivors of this genocide. Gaza City and its northern areas have been subjected to heavy Israeli shelling and artillery fire for hours,” he said.
Video footage shared on social media following the attack on the school-turned-shelter depicted flames engulfing tent structures and canvas melting onto the remains of burning chairs and what appeared to be a bed frame.
Several civilians burned to death after Israeli forces targeted displacement tents inside Yafa School, east of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/ABNRWdFjSf
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The civil defence has issued an urgent appeal for assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross to help rescue people trapped under the rubble following Israel’s bombing of two homes in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
“Trapped people are calling for help to rescue them from under the rubble of homes,” the civil defence stated, adding that emergency workers could not reach the area due to its designation as a “no-go” zone by Israeli forces.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and local Palestinian media also reported that a child was among the two individuals killed on Wednesday morning in an Israeli attack on tent shelters in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.
One person was also reported killed and several injured in an Israeli drone attack on tent shelters in the so-called al-Mawasi “safe zone”, south of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Intense Israeli artillery fire and air attacks were reported across the Strip in the early hours of the morning.
