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AFP Palestinians inspect damage following an Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced families in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (16 December 2024)AFP

A lot of these killed on Sunday have been in a school-turned-shelter within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis

Greater than 50 individuals have been killed in Israeli air and floor assaults throughout the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in response to native medics and rescuers.

They mentioned kids, a cameraman who labored for the Al Jazeera TV community and personnel from the Civil Defence company have been among the many lifeless.

The Israeli army mentioned it focused websites utilized by Hamas and the allied armed group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned the deaths meant the variety of Palestinians killed in Gaza through the 14-month warfare between Israel and Hamas had surpassed 45,000.

The ministry doesn’t make a distinction between combatants and civilians, however it reported in October that 29,980 kids, girls and aged have been among the many recognized fatalities.

The figures are sometimes disputed by the Israeli authorities, which says nearly 20,000 “terrorists” have been killed, however they’re broadly accepted by UN companies.

The warfare started when Hamas-led gunmen carried out an unprecedented assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, throughout which about 1,200 individuals have been killed and 251 others have been taken hostage.

A lot of these killed on Sunday have been in a UN-run college getting used as a shelter for displaced households within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis.

Harrowing footage confirmed a bloody scene on the third ground of Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz College, with kids’s our bodies apparently amongst these being eliminated.

“Folks have been secure, staying of their properties after they prayed the dinner prayer. They have been sitting, sleeping, and staying put of their locations,” Manal Tafesh, whose brother and his kids have been amongst these killed, informed Reuters information company outdoors a neighborhood mortuary.

Medics mentioned not less than 13 individuals have been killed, whereas a spokeswoman for the UN company for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) mentioned she had heard studies of round 20 casualties, a lot of them girls and kids.

“It is simply does not cease. It is so relentless the ache and the struggling that we proceed to have,” Louise Wateridge informed the ORIONEWS from central Gaza.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned it had “carried out a exact strike on Hamas terrorists who have been working inside a command-and-control centre” embedded throughout the college.

It additionally accused Hamas and different armed teams of exploiting civilians and utilizing civilian infrastructure as human shields.

Medics mentioned a number of extra individuals have been killed at one other school-turned-shelter within the northern city of Beit Hanoun, which the UN mentioned has been below siege by Israeli forces for greater than two months.

The UN mentioned it was monitoring studies that greater than 1,500 individuals have been newly displaced after Israeli forces besieged Khalil Aweida college and shelled it.

The IDF mentioned on Sunday that its forces “carried out a focused raid on a terrorist assembly level within the Beit Hanoun space”.

“In co-operation with the [Israeli Air Force], the troops struck dozens of terrorists from each the air and floor, and extra terrorists have been apprehended,” it added.

Reuters Journalists and other Palestinian mourn next the body of Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad Baker al-Louh, after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza (16 December 2024)Reuters

Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad al-Louh was killed in a strike on a Civil Defence submit within the central Nuseirat refugee camp

One other strike hit a Civil Defence constructing within the city Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal mentioned the strike killed the administrators of its Nuseirat and Sheikh Radwan centres together with two volunteers, one among whom he named as Ahmad Baker al-Louh. One other 5 individuals have been injured, three of them critically, he added.

“The Israeli occupation has as soon as once more proven the world that there is no such thing as a safety for humanitarian employees in Gaza and no adherence to worldwide humanitarian legal guidelines,” he mentioned, including that 94 Civil Defence employees had been killed because the begin of the warfare.

Ahmad al-Louh was a cameraman for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera community, which strongly condemned what it referred to as Israel’s “focused killing” of its journalist.

It mentioned Louh had been overlaying a rescue operation by the Civil Defence following an earlier strike on Sunday and that it got here “simply days after the focusing on of his home”.

“The community calls on all human rights and media organisations to sentence the Israeli occupation’s systematic killing of journalists in chilly blood, the evasion of obligations below worldwide humanitarian regulation, and to convey the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice,” an announcement mentioned.

The IDF mentioned the Civil Defence constructing was utilized by “terrorists to plan and perform an imminent terror assault towards IDF troops”.

“Among the many terrorists eradicated within the strike was the Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmad Bakr al-Louh, who beforehand served as a platoon commander within the Islamic Jihad’s Central Camps Brigade,” it alleged, with out offering any proof.

Al Jazeera didn’t touch upon the Israeli allegation, however Louh’s cousin Mahmoud informed the Related Press: “We have been shocked by the Israeli occupation assertion.”

“These claims are lies and deceptive to cowl up this crime,” he added.

The Committee to Shield Journalists says not less than 137 journalists and media employees have been killed in Gaza, the occupied West Financial institution, Israel and Lebanon because the warfare started.

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