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Ten killed in Israeli strikes on northern Gaza school – report
Further to our earlier post here, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, is reporting that 10 civilians were killed and 30 others injured in attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip.
At least 10 civilians were killed and 30 others were injured today as a result of the Israeli occupation artillery shelling of Jabalia Preparatory School, which houses displaced people in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources said that medical teams recovered the bodies of at least 10 slain Palestinians and a number of wounded in Israeli artillery shelling of Jabalia Preparatory School in the Al-Fawqa area schools square, which is a Unrwa shelter for displaced people in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources indicated that 57 citizens were killed in the occupation raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 44 of them in the north of the Strip.
The UN warned Monday that almost no aid is entering the besieged Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where a two-week Israeli military campaign has killed hundreds of people and left thousands trapped, CNN reports.
“Almost no humanitarian aid is getting into (the) Jabalia refugee camp and telecommunications are severely disrupted amid ongoing air strikes, shelling and fighting across north Gaza, as the violence displaces more and more people,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said at a briefing.
Secretary-General @antonioguterres condemns the continuing and widespread loss of life in #Gaza. From the noon briefing today: pic.twitter.com/mPoefQXNHv
— UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) October 21, 2024
Requests by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to enter the Al-Faluja area of Jabalia to help those trapped under rubble had been denied by Israeli authorities for four consecutive days, Haq told the briefing. He also said a request by OCHA Monday to distribute food, medicine and fuel in the Jabalia camp was denied.
Only four out of 66 planned humanitarian missions from southern to northern Gaza had been facilitated by Israeli authorities since the start of October, Haq added.
“We reiterate once again that these delays are likely costing lives,” he said.
COGAT, the Israeli agency that manages the flow of aid into the strip, insists that supplies are reaching Gaza. In a post on X on Monday, it said that that in the past 24 hours, 47 humanitarian aid trucks had been transferred to northern Gaza. For comparison, CNN said, the UN previously reported that an average 500 trucks entered the strip a day in the months before 7 October 2023.
