A total of 45 people, including 11 people at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GFH) site in Rafah, were killed in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, reports Al Jazeera, quoting medical sources.
Among those killed, at least eight people died after Israel bombed the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia an-Nazla, which was sheltering the displaced. The military struck at night as people slept.
Witness Ahmed Khalla told Al Jazeera he found dead people lying on the floor of a classroom, coming upon scenes he described as beyond horrific, including "a little girl without a head – literally, without a head".
At least one Palestinian was killed and others were wounded following an Israeli attack that targeted a house on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area, east of Gaza City. Sources at al-Ahli Arab Hospital told Al Jazeera that the victim was a child.
'Israel turning Gaza into graveyard of children and starving people'
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees' Chief Philippe Lazzarini criticised Israel as the world body reports that since May, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.
In his social media handle on Friday, he accused Israel of engineering a "cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill" in Gaza.
"Under our watch, Gaza has become the graveyard of children and starving people," UNRWA Chief Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on X.
People in Gaza have "no way out", he said. "Their choice is between 2 deaths: starvation or being shot at."
Lazzarini was reacting to the Israeli military's killing of 15 people, including nine children and four women, as they waited in line for nutritional supplements in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on Thursday.
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