Quran Reciting Palestinian Kids Martyred in Israeli Air Raid on Gaza Refugee Camp

IQNA – At least 16 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school in a refugee camp in central Gaza.

Palestinian officials said the school that came under attack by the Zionist regimes warplanes is in the Nuseirat refugee camp and belongs to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

They said at least 16 people were killed and tens of others were injured in the airstrike.

According to eye witnesses, a number of children were killed in the attack while reciting the Holy Quran at the school.

This is the fourth time the Zionist regime targets the school without prior warning, they said.

The injured, the vast majority of whom women and children, were transferred to al-Awda Hospital and Al-Aqsa Hospital.

More than 7,000 have taken refuge at the school, witnesses say.

The Zionist regime has claimed the presence of Hamas elements was the reason for the attack on the school, without offering further explanation or evidence.

Hamas condemned the Israeli massacre of defenseless civilians in the attack.

The Israeli regime, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.

More than 38,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and around 90,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Nine months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

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