The civil defense agency in Gaza said on Monday that an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City killed at least one person.
The strike on Salah al-Din School in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood was the latest to hit schools, many of which have been turned into shelters for people displaced by the Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian territory.
At least six schools have been hit over the past nine days.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest incident but Israel says Hamas uses schools, hospitals and other public infrastructure for military purposes.
Hamas militants, at war with Israel since October 7, deny such accusations.
A civil defense spokesman reported the death, which a medic at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City confirmed. The medic added that four others were wounded at Salah al-Din School.
It was not immediately clear who ran the Salah al-Din facility.
The new school strike came as the Health Ministry in Gaza announced the death toll from an attack the previous day on the UN-run Abu Oreiban school had risen from 15 to 22.
Civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said “thousands of displaced” were sheltering at the school in Nuseirat camp when it was bombed on Sunday, and that most of the dead were women and children.
Israel’s military confirmed it hit Abu Oreiban school, which it said had “served as a hideout” for militants and a base for “attacks” on Israeli troops.
With AFP
