Two Israeli strikes killed more than 20 people in separate parts of Gaza on Tuesday, one of which targeted a United Nations school turned shelter.
Palestinian paramedics evacuated at least five killed and eight wounded at the school building, in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society emergency service.
It was the sixth site that had been a U.N.-run educational institution in Gaza to be hit in just 10 days, according to UNRWA, the agency for assisting Palestinian refugees. Last Tuesday, at least 27 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the entrance to a U.N. school used as a shelter on the outskirts of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
17 people were killed on Tuesday in a separate Israeli strike in Mawasi, a coastal area that Israel has designated a safer zone, the Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement.
Since Oct. 7, Israeli aircraft have struck 37,000 targets in Gaza, laying waste to wide swaths of the enclave’s cities and towns, the military said on Tuesday. More than 38,000 people have been killed in the enclave during the Israeli military campaign against Hamas, now in its 10th month, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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