News - Middle East: At least 30 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central part of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza's Health Ministry and the Government Media Office in the besieged enclave said on Saturday that the attack on Khadija school west of Deir al-Balah also wounded more than 100 people.

Ambulances rushed the wounded to al-Aqsa Hospital in the city, while some of the injured arrived on foot, with their clothes stained with blood.

In a statement, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the attack on Khadija school.

The “massacre at Khadija School is a crime that confirms the Israeli enemy’s estrangement from all human values ​​and its defiance of all laws of war,” Hamas said.

The resistance group also noted that the occupying regime continues “to commit massacres against civilians without any deterrence and with criminal cover” provided by the United States.

Hamas further called on the international community and the United Nations “to break the policy of silence” and take steps to force the occupying regime to stop its crimes.

Gaza schools have been turned into a center for sheltering the displaced across the Gaza Strip since Israel started its barbarous campaign in Gaza more than nine months ago.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in school buildings with no other place to flee amid the regime's relentless bombardment of their homeland.

Earlier in the day, at least 14 Palestinians were killed in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.

The Israeli military claimed it had told Palestinians to temporarily evacuate the southern neighborhoods of the city and relocate to the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi.

Khan Younis has been under heavy bombardment recently. A fresh Israeli ground aggression earlier this week claimed the lives of dozens of Palestinians there.

Israel launched the devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 39,258 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 90,500 others.

Source: Press TV

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