At least 27 Gazans have been killed by Israel in an attack on a UNRWA school that housed Displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee campin the center of the Gaza Strip, the Gazan Government has confirmed.

The Israeli Army has confirmed the attack and has indicated that the school had a compound belonging to the Islamist group and that “terrorists who participated in the murderous attack against communities in southern Israel on October 7, who were eliminated, were hiding there.”

The Gazan government, however, has assured that many of The victims were civilians taking refuge at the school and called the attack a “horrible massacre” and a “crime that shames humanity,” although Israel assures, as always when there are civilian victims, that “measures were taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians,” such as the surveillance in the area and additional intelligence.

“Recently, fighter jets, led by Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet intelligence, carried out a precise strike against a Hamas compound embedded inside a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat area,” a military statement stated.

Hospitals collapsed

The Army has assured that troops from both Hamas and Islamic Jihad operated in the compound and belonged to the Nukhba forces, Hamas’ elite unit. “The terrorists conducted terrorist operations in the school area while exploiting it and using it as a shelter. Several terrorists who were planning attacks and promoting terrorist activities against the troops in the immediate period were eliminated in the attack,” he added, without presenting any test to confirm it.

The attack has also caused dozens of injuries, according to the Gazan government, who were taken to the Mártires de hospital. Al Aqsa, in Deir al Balah, which is already on the brink of collapse and has three times as many patients as it can care for. “The malfunction of one of the electricity generators at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital heralds the emergence of a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to dozens of wounded, sick and premature babies falling victim, and we call for urgent international intervention” , the Gaza Ministry of Health reported last night about this hospital.

The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, has denounced that the “intense hostilities have seriously paralyzed the provision of health care in Rafah, where tens of thousands of vulnerable people still remain.”

It is the only one available to serve more than a million people in the center of the Strip. Israel intensified its ground and air operations in the center of the Strip on Wednesday, and took “operational control” of the Bureij refugee camp and eastern Deir al Balah with attacks that killed at least 75 people.