At least 46 Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes overnight, according to local medics and civil defense officials.
One of the strikes hit the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City, which had been serving as a shelter for hundreds of displaced families from the heavily bombarded town of Beit Lahia. The school sustained severe damage, with two classrooms turned living quarters engulfed in flames.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense spokesperson reported that 20 bodies were recovered from the wreckage, many of them children. Several of the victims were badly burned, and some survivors remain in critical condition.
Among the dead was Mohammad Al-Kasih, the head of investigations for the Hamas police in northern Gaza, along with his wife and children, local reports said.
Earlier, an Israeli airstrike also struck a residential home in central Gaza City, killing four people.
The two incidents are part of an intensified Israeli offensive that has recently expanded into northern Gaza.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the strikes targeted a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center. The military alleged that the site was being used to coordinate attacks against Israeli civilians and troops and accused Hamas of using Gaza’s civilian population as “human shields.”
The situation in Gaza continues to escalate amid growing international concern over the rising civilian toll.
