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Gaza rescue teams: Israeli forces killed 25 people, 12 in shelters

Politiko 2025-07-03 15:08:43

The civil defense agency in Gaza announced that Israeli forces killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including 12 in an attack on a school housing Palestinians displaced by the war that is entering its 22nd month.

Israel has recently expanded military operations in the Gaza Strip, where the war since October 2023 has caused dire humanitarian conditions and displaced almost the entire population of over two million.

Many have taken refuge in school buildings, but these buildings have been hit frequently by Israeli airstrikes, which the military says are targeting Hamas militants hiding among civilians. On Thursday in Gaza City, civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP:

"We have 12 martyrs, most of them women and children, and a large number of wounded from an Israeli airstrike on the Mustafa Hafez school, which houses displaced people, in the Al-Rimal neighborhood."

AFP footage showed young children wandering through the burned and destroyed building, amid piles of charred debris that still emitted smoke.

Groups of Palestinians were searching among the rubble and damaged furniture that covered the floor. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it was looking into the report, as well as another incident in central Gaza, where, according to Mughayyir, Israeli gunfire killed people seeking humanitarian aid.

He said the shooting killed six people and left “a large number of injured” in an area where aid was being distributed. This is just one of a series of bloody incidents that have affected people trying to get the limited aid available.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to eradicate Hamas, the Palestinian militant organization designated a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union, which launched the war with its attack on Israel in 2023, although Hamas has said it is considering new ceasefire proposals from mediators.

US President Donald Trump has said the latest ceasefire attempt, which aims for an initial 60-day halt to fighting, has Israeli support. The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which triggered the Israeli offensive, resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Israel's retaliatory military campaign has so far killed at least 57,012 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. The United Nations considers these figures to be credible./ REL