28 killed, 160 injured in Israeli bombing shelter in Gaza: Hamas

GAZA STRIP: At least 28 Palestinians were killed and 160 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in the Jabalia camp of northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said.

Fires broke out in the tents of the displaced individuals in the schoolyard because of the bombing. Some casualties were transferred to a hospital in northern Gaza, while ambulance teams were unable to reach the people in the targeted school, according to reports.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the Israeli Air Force conducted a "precise strike" on an operational meeting point for Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in northern Gaza.

The militants were operating inside a command and control center embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Abu Hassan School, the IDF said.

Dozens of militants were present in the compound at the time of the strike, said the IDF, which also published 12 names of those present.

The militants were involved in rocket attacks into the Israeli territory, as well as in planning and committing attacks against IDF troops and Israel in recent days, it claimed.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Civil Defense in Gaza, said Thursday in a statement that the Israeli army is carrying out a "systematic destruction" of the Jabalia camp, using all means, including explosive robots, to empty the camp.

The Israeli army refuses to allow ambulances to reach the area and transport the casualties, while bodies of victims are still under the rubble, Basal said.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based health authorities warned Thursday in a press statement that newborn babies in the nursery of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza are facing a humanitarian disaster, as the hospital is suffering from a fuel crisis and a shortage of medicines and medical supplies amid ongoing Israeli siege of northern Gaza.

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