The Israeli army has carried out a series of deadly attacks in the region Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including at a flour distribution center, a school and a hospital where displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
A video of a fire in a tent camp on Sunday, which started after Israeli forces launched an airstrike on the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, showed harrowing images.
Multiple videos shared on social media and verified by NBC News showed at least one person reaching their hands out of the flames as they were burned alive. Others could be seen running from the fire, some carrying the wounded, while others ran to the fire to help.
The strike and its fiery aftermath left at least four people dead and dozens more injured, including women and children, local health officials said.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas militants operating from the hospital.
On Friday, a fact-finding mission set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council investigated war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. said the Israeli army’s attacks on hospitals in Gaza constituted “the war crimes of intentional killing and assault and the crime against humanity of extermination.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed the commission’s accusations as “outrageous.”
The Israeli army faced renewed condemnation from UN leaders on Monday after troops attacked a school in Nuseirat in central Gaza. The attack hit a refugee camp run by the United Nations Assistance Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, killing at least 20 people, the organization’s commissioner general said.
The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News on Monday.
UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said the Mufti School was intended to be used in the second round of elections. polio vaccinations in the Gaza Strip, which started on Monday.
“We had to cancel the vaccination campaign in that school due to the serious damage,” he said in a post on X on Monday morning.
The attacks marked a deadly weekend in Gaza that continued into Monday morning, with the Israeli army launching a separate attack in the area of the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, killing several people and wounding dozens of others, an official said. Al-Awda. Hospital told NBC News. The official said the strike had affected a flour distribution center.
NBC News could not immediately independently verify the details of the strike.
The IDF said in a separate statement on Telegram on Monday that its forces continued their operational activities throughout the Gaza Strip.
In another statement, Hamas said it was trying to regroup and rebuild its forces in Jabalia, accusing the militant group of “actively preventing Gazan civilians” from leaving the area. NBC News could not independently verify the claim.
More than 42,200 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive in the enclave following Hamas terror attacks on October 7, which killed about 1,200 people and took about 250 others hostage, according to local health officials. Israeli officials. With thousands still missing or buried under rubble, the death toll in Gaza is expected to be higher than official figures.
Israel has continued its stepped-up offensive Lebanonwhere the death toll is also rising.
Lazzarini urged the international community not to let weekend violence in Gaza “become the new normal.”
“Gaza is an endless hell,” he said, pointing to both the school and hospital strikes.
“Humanity must prevail.”
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